Orange nut muffins
Orange nut muffins recipe in the low carb category
Recipe ingredients:
- 6 eggs, separated
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 4 Splenda packets
- 1/4 cup soy flour
- 1/4 cup walnuts, ground
- 1 teaspoon orange extract, divided
- 1 tablespoon Brown Sugar Twin
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 8 Splenda packets
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- Orange cream cheese frosting:
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1/4 cup whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- Splenda to taste
Recipe method:
- Beat egg whites with cream of tartar and add 4 Splenda packets.
- Beat whites until stiff.
- Sprinkle the 1/2 teaspoon orange extract over this.
- In separate bowl, beat yolks with 4 Splenda packets and 1 tablespoon Brown Sugar Twin.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon orange extract.
- Take a big spoonful of whites and add to yolk mixture and mix together, then pour yolk mixture over whites.
- Mix 1/4 cup soy flour with 1/4 cup ground walnuts.
- Fold all this together and pile mixture into 12 muffin cups sprayed with Pam.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes until tops of muffins are browned.
- Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F, and bake another 15 minutes.
- Cool and ice with orange cream cheese frosting if desired.
Per serving: 126 cal (60% from fat, 34% from protein, 7% from carb); 11 g protein; 9 g tot fat; 2 g carb; 1 g fiber; 25 mg calcium; 1 mg iron; 65 mg sodium; 137 mg cholesterol