Butternut Squash Muffins with a Frosty Top

Vegetarian
Health score
6%
Butternut Squash Muffins with a Frosty Top
110 min.
12
361kcal

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Ingredients

  • teaspoons double-acting baking powder 
  • 14 ounces butternut squash deseeded roughly chopped
  •  1 clementine 
  • large eggs organic free-range
  • 2.5 cups flour all-purpose
  • teaspoon ground cinnamon 
  • tablespoons icing sugar sifted
  • 0.5  juice of lemon juiced
  •  lemon zest 
  • 2.3 cups brown sugar light soft
  • 0.8 cup olive oil extra-virgin
  • 12 servings rose petals 
  • 12 servings sea salt 
  • 0.5 cup cup heavy whipping cream sour
  •  vanilla pod split
  • Handful walnuts chopped

Equipment

  • food processor
  • bowl
  • oven
  • knife
  • wire rack
  • spatula
  • skewers
  • muffin tray

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line your muffin tins with paper cups.
  2. Whiz the squash in a food processor until finely chopped.
  3. Add the sugar, and crack in the eggs.
  4. Add a pinch of salt, the flour, baking powder, walnuts, cinnamon and olive oil and whiz together until well beaten. You may need to pause the machine at some point to scrape the mix down the sides with a rubber spatula. Try not to overdo it with the mixing - you want to just combine everything and no more.
  5. Fill the paper cups with the muffin mixture.
  6. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Check to see whether they are cooked properly by sticking a wooden skewer or a knife right into one of the muffins - if it comes out clean, they're done. If it's a bit sticky, pop them back into the oven for a little longer.
  7. Remove from the oven and leave the muffins to cool on a wire rack.
  8. As soon as the muffins are in the oven, make your runny frosted topping.
  9. Place most of the clementine zest, all the lemon zest and the lemon juice in a bowl.
  10. Add the sour cream, icing sugar and vanilla seeds and mix well. Taste and have a think about it - adjust the amount of lemon juice or icing sugar to balance the sweet and sour. Put into the fridge until your muffins have cooled down, then spoon the topping onto the muffins.
  11. Serve on a lovely plate (on a cake stand if you're feeling elegant, or on a rustic slab if you're more of a hunter-gatherer type!), with the rest of the clementine zest sprinkled over. For an interesting flavor and look, a few dried lavender flowers or rose petals are fantastic.

Nutrition Facts

Calories361kcal
Protein6.36%
Fat19.84%
Carbs73.8%

Properties

Glycemic Index
21.83
Glycemic Load
15.03
Inflammation Score
-9
Nutrition Score
12.653478187063%

Flavonoids

Cyanidin
0.07mg
Eriodictyol
0.06mg
Hesperetin
0.18mg
Naringenin
0.02mg
Apigenin
0.01mg
Luteolin
0.02mg

Nutrients percent of daily need

Calories:361.41kcal
18.07%
Fat:8.14g
12.53%
Saturated Fat:2.06g
12.9%
Carbohydrates:68.15g
22.72%
Net Carbohydrates:66.13g
24.05%
Sugar:43.22g
48.02%
Cholesterol:67.65mg
22.55%
Sodium:304.78mg
13.25%
Alcohol:0g
100%
Alcohol %:0%
100%
Protein:5.87g
11.74%
Vitamin A:3710.28IU
74.21%
Selenium:15.11µg
21.58%
Manganese:0.4mg
20.17%
Vitamin C:15.47mg
18.75%
Folate:69.69µg
17.42%
Vitamin B1:0.26mg
17.38%
Vitamin B2:0.24mg
13.86%
Iron:2.23mg
12.41%
Calcium:120.77mg
12.08%
Phosphorus:106.4mg
10.64%
Vitamin B3:2.09mg
10.43%
Fiber:2.02g
8.1%
Vitamin E:1.19mg
7.92%
Potassium:263.39mg
7.53%
Magnesium:29.34mg
7.33%
Copper:0.14mg
6.97%
Vitamin B6:0.13mg
6.6%
Vitamin B5:0.62mg
6.24%
Zinc:0.58mg
3.87%
Vitamin B12:0.17µg
2.81%
Vitamin K:2.64µg
2.51%
Vitamin D:0.33µg
2.22%