Best 6 Sugar Free Orange Polenta Muffins Recipes

EASY ORANGE MUFFINS RECIPE (VEGAN, GLUTEN FREE, DAIRY-FREE)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients: oat flour, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• Add water and milk to a microwave-safe bowl. Heat in 10-second increments until just warm. This will prevent the melted coconut oil from solidifying once mixed with these liquids.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together all wet ingredients: water, milk, orange juice, orange zest, oil, sugar, maple syrup and vanilla. Whisk until well incorporated.
• Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Whisk until just incorporated, making sure no flour patches remain.
• Pour batter evenly into prepared muffin pan-filling each cup all the way to the top for big, round tops, and ¾ of the way for a larger quantity of smaller muffins. Bake for 22-26 minutes. Mine took 24 minutes. Insert a toothpick to check for doneness-once it comes out clean, it's done.
• Place muffin pan on a cooling rack to cool for 20 minutes. Remove muffins from muffin pan and transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely, about 1-3 hours. Optionally, in a small bowl, whisk together Glaze ingredients until thickened: confectioners' sugar and orange juice. Drizzle muffins. Enjoy! Storing instructions below. Get your morning fruit on with my Healthy Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins and my Blueberry Banana Almond Breakfast Cookies.

POMEGRANATE-ORANGE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line 18 muffin cups with paper liners. Whisk the flour, granulated sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large bowl; make a well in the center.
• Wash 2 clementines and cut into 8 pieces each (peel and all); transfer to a blender. Add the milk; blend until smooth. Add the eggs and blend until combined. Pour into the well in the flour mixture, add the melted butter and stir until just combined. The batter will be lumpy.
• Divide the batter among the muffin cups, filling them three-quarters of the way. Top evenly with the pomegranate seeds. Bake until the muffins are golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Let the muffins cool 5 minutes in the pans, then remove to a rack to cool completely.
• Put the confectioners' sugar in a small bowl and squeeze in the juice from half of the remaining clementine. Stir to make a thick glaze, adding the juice from the remaining clementine half as needed. Drizzle the glaze over the muffins and let set 10 minutes.

POLENTA MUFFINS (LOW FAT)

Steps:

• Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix for at least 3 minutes, then let it stand for at least 20 minutes.
• Spoon into muffin tins that have been sprayed with Frylite.
• Cook for about 20 minutes at 200°C.
• Variations: Use Cherry flavour yoghurt and replace the vanilla with almond extract. (my favourite one).
• Use Chocolate yoghurt + rind of 2 and juice of 1 orange, with 1 teasp of vanilla extract.
• Use Apple yoghurt with 1 teasp cinnamon and 1 teasp vanilla.

ORANGE POLENTA CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Line the base and sides of a round 23cm cake tin with baking parchment. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and mix thoroughly. Once the mixture is combined, add all the dry ingredients and the zest and juice after you have measured off 100ml for the glaze.
• Transfer the mixture to the tin, spread evenly, then cook for about 45 mins or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
• To make the glaze, put the juice and sugar in a medium saucepan and bring to the boil. Let it simmer for 5 mins, then remove from the heat and allow to cool. Drizzle the orange glaze over the top of the cooled cake. Serve with Lemon ice cream, below.

VEGAN AND GLUTEN-FREE ORANGE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
• Combine oats, sugar, orange juice, almond milk, orange zest, baking soda, vanilla extract, and salt in a blender; blend until smooth. Pour batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each to the top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 22 minutes. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes and serve warm.

SUGAR FREE BANANA ORANGE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Trim the woody ends from the bananas, cut into chunks and add to food processor or blender along with the applesauce and orange juice.
• Blend thoroughly. You want the banana peels to get well blended.
• Add the eggs to the processor and blend well.
• In a separate large bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon.
• Add wet ingredients from the food processor to the flour mixture and mix until the flour is almost fully incorporated.
• Add oats, raisins and nuts and stir until just combined.
• Oil or butter your muffin tin and spoon the batter into it.
• Bake muffins for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the muffins comes out clean.