Pineapple Upside Down Muffins
- Upside down part
- 4 tablespoons reduced fat margarine
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 (8 ounce) can pineapple slices
- Cake part
- 1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 6 tablespoons reduced fat margarine
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 large egg whites
- 1/2 cup pineapple juice (reserved from can)
- 1/2 cup low-fat milk
- In a small pan melt margarine over medium heat. Add brown sugar and cinnamon, stir until sugar has melted. Remove from heat.
- Grease muffin tin (do not use liners).
- Break pineapple slices in half and arrange in muffin tin. The broken halves should over-lap eachother within one muffin round.
- Pour a tablespoon or so of brown sugar mix over each pineapple slice.
- Preheat oven to 350u0b0F.
- Cakey part: In a large bowl, sift flour and baking powder; set aside.
- In a medium bowl beat margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Stir vanilla into butter/sugar mix, then, add the egg whites and beat well.
- In a small bowl, combine the pineapple juice and milk.
- Fold the wet mixes into the dry in alternating fashion (between the butter/sugar mix and juice/milk mix).
- Stir until it's just combined -- don't over mix.
- Pour batter into mufin tin over topping mix.
- Bake for 20 minute or until muffin is done ( i use the toothpick test).
- Let cool for 5 minute and run the edges of muffins with an icing knife and carefully lift out muffins -- transfer to plate.
- Eat'em hot or cool -- YUM!
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/pineapple-upside-down-muffins-321665 (may not work)