Happy Wednesday! Today we have a recipe for a treat, but unlike the peanut butter cupcakes, this one has pretty magical nutritionals!
I know it seems like I’m pulling a “Julie & Julia” and cooking my way through the Hungry Girl cookbook, but that’s really not the case. However, when my friend Lauren told me she made Hungry Girl cinnamon rolls this weekend, I had a major urge to make a Hungry Girl treat too! So I got out the cookbook yesterday on a muffin mission.
I am not really a muffin person, but I’ve been in the mood for baked goods lately. My brother loves muffins. He used to eat horrendous trans-fatty store-bought chocolate-chip muffins every day for breakfast, until I begged my mom to wean him off of them. (He now eats a chocolate Clif bar…baby steps!) And my mom loves chocolate anything. So when I found chocolate cherry muffins….and they only had FOUR ingredients (none of which were over-the-top “fake”)…I knew I had we had a winner!
Chocolate Cherry Muffins
Ingredients (Makes 12)
One box No-Pudge Fudge brownie mix
One cup Fiber One cereal
2/3 cup light cherry pie filling
1/4 cup light vanilla soymilk
Method
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Crush the Fiber One cereal–you probably want to use a Magic Bullet or food processor.
Combine cereal, cherry pie filling, and soymilk.
Add in the entire package of brownie mix. Stir well. It takes about five minutes to go from a big dry mess to the right consistency. The cherries will start to reappear and it will be super thick when it’s ready.
Drop it like it’s hot into a lined muffin pan.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Perfect for an afternoon snack with a small non-fat latte to kill a chocolate craving and make you fee all warm inside!
[When I saw this, I couldn't help but think, "Is your muffin buttered? Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?"]
Nutrition info per muffin: 131 calories, >0.5 grams of fat, 35 g carbs, 3.5 g fiber, 24 g sugar, 3 grams protein.
I am actually liking it as a breakfast muffin. They are a little small, so next time, I would consider using a bigger muffin pan and making six jumbo ones. Even doubled (or if you eat two) the nutritional facts are pretty legit if you’re going to have it for breakfast. The worst part is the sugar–I wouldn’t eat a jumbo one daily!
I served them after dinner last night and they were really good! The consistency of these is some combination of brownie, muffin, and cupcake. Nothing wrong with that! Dense, chewy, chocolatey. They are, dare I say, bake-sale-worthy. No one will know they are so guilt-free. Preston ate his and declared it delicious. The kid is a crap-food connoisseur, so you know that means it’s good!
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This is one of the hungry girl recipes i have made. Unfortunately i didn’t realize you had to crush the fiber 1 and it made the texture really weird. but no pudge and cherries are a divine combo.
Ohh yeah…can’t imagine that being very good!!
Looks delish! Where can you find No Pudge in Michigan?
I found it at Kroger, with all the baking supplies! I think it’s pretty widely distributed!