Chocolate beetroot muffins

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Chocolate beetroot muffins

Kids can help make these delicious lunchbox muffins

25 minutes

Makes 12

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Recipe by: Mixer | Eat Move Learn cook

Our homemade chocolate muffins have much less sugar than shop-bought varieties. Perfect as an after-school snack or for lunchboxes.

This recipe is from our Eat Move Learn programme helping kids to eat healthily and stay active.

> See all our recipes suitable for young cooks

 

Mixer

Recipe by: Mixer | Eat Move Learn cook

Our homemade chocolate muffins have much less sugar than shop-bought varieties. Perfect as an after-school snack or for lunchboxes.

This recipe is from our Eat Move Learn programme helping kids to eat healthily and stay active.

> See all our recipes suitable for young cooks

 

Ingredients

  • 150g self-raising flour (wholemeal)
  • 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 250g steamed beetroot (in natural juices), grated
  • 1 large egg, beaten
  • 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup or honey (36g honey)
  • 100g sultanas

CALORIES: 113

FAT: 3g

5 A DAY: 0.5

SALT: 0.3g

SUGAR: 9.6g

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 170oC/Fan 150o
  2. Sieve the flour into a large mixing bowl. Add the cocoa powder, baking powder and cinnamon. Mix them together.
  3. Then add the beetroot, egg, oil, vanilla extract and maple syrup to the large mixing bowl with the dry ingredients. Stir all the ingredients together until the mixture is runny.
  4. Add the sultanas and stir to mix in well.
  5. Now put 12 muffin cases into the mini muffin tray. Spoon the mixture into the cases. Ask an adult to help you put the tray into the oven.
  6. After 12–15 minutes ask an adult to take the muffins out of the oven. Leave them to cool for at least 5 minutes.
  7. When they have cooled put them on a plate and enjoy one! You can keep the extra muffins in a tin for later.

TOP TIP

If you have a food processor, ask an adult to use it to chop up the beetroot into small pieces. This is a lot less messy than grating it by hand.

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