Snack

Tropical Surprise Muffins is for Breakfast, Snack.

Tropical Surprise Muffins takes 10 minutes to prepare.

Tropical Surprise Muffins takes 20 minutes to cook.

Tropical Surprise Muffins makes 12 servings.

The ingredients for Tropical Surprise Muffins are:

*Whole Wheat Flour, 1 cup
*Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched, 1 cup
*Coconut (Shredded) 2 Tbsp, 3 serving
Whole Milk / Vitamin D, .75 cup
Egg, fresh, 1 large, beaten
*Canola Oil, .25 cup
Baking Powder, 2 tsp
Granulated Sugar, .5 cup
*Dole Mandarin Oranges, 0.5 cup
Salt, .5 tsp
Almonds (whole, raw, Kirkland brand), 4 oz
Orange Peel, dried, 1 tbsp

Here is how you make Tropical Surprise Muffins:

Makes 12 muffins (For nutrition info, 1 muffin = 1 serving)Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease or spray muffin tin, or prepare muffin cups with paper liners.Finely chop almonds, coconut and orange peel. In medium bowl, mix above ingredients with dry ingredients. Make well in center of mixed ingredeints. In separate bowl, mix wet ingredients except mandarin oranges. Pour mixed wet ingredeints all at once into dry ingredients. Stir with wooden spoon only until moistened -- do not over mix. Batter will be lumpy.Spoon about 2/3 of the batter into the prepared muffin cups. Make slight indent in center of batter. Place 2 segments of mandarin orange in the center of each muffin. (Can add more if any leftover in can.) Top the mandarin oranges with more muffin batter.Bake at 400 for 20 minutes until golden brown.* Makes dense muffins....almost like a cross between muffins and scones, but not as dry as most scones.Number of Servings: 12Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user J165GOAL.

The nutritional information for Tropical Surprise Muffins is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 12
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 238.1

• Total Fat: 11.7 g
• Cholesterol: 19.0 mg
• Sodium: 202.3 mg
• Total Carbs: 29.8 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2.8 g
• Protein: 5.7 g