Tutti-frutti Muffins

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup oat bran (ground rolled oats)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 cup splenda granular or 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup ripe banana, mashed
• 1/2 cup crushed pineapple, drained
• 1/2 cup strawberry, crushed
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1/4 cup canola oil (i used enova) or 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce (i used enova)
• 2 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons splenda brown sugar blend or 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2-1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons pecans, finely chopped
• 1/4 cup raspberry preserves
• 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
• 2 -3 tablespoons blood orange juice
• 1/2 teaspoon orange zest

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375°f.
• 2 grease 12 muffin tins or line with paper liners.
• 3 in a large bowl, whisk together oat bran, flour, whole-wheat flour, salt, baking soda, ground cinnamon, splenda and sugar.
• 4 in a medium bowl, stir together bananas, pineapple, strawberries, eggs, vanilla, applesauce and oil.
• 5 stir fruit mixture into flour mixture.
• 6 streusel: in a small bowl, stir together flour, brown sugar and cinnamon. cut butter into flour mixture. stir in pecans.
• 7 put a mounded tablespoon of batter into each muffin tin.
• 8 put 1 teaspoon of raspberry preserves over the center of the batter in each muffin tin.
• 9 use remaining batter to nearly fill muffin tins.
• 10 sprinkle streusel over the top of batter.
• 11 bake for 30-40 minutes until toothpick tests clean.
• 12 let sit for 5 minutes and turn out of tins.
• 13 optional glaze: stir together powdered sugar, blood orange juice and zest. once muffins are room temperature, drizzle glaze over them.
• 14 *good with whipped cream too!