Food Adventure Friday- Green Monster Muffins

I want to start by thanking everyone who linked up to Food Adventure Friday last week! I had so much fun checking out all of the fun ways that you enjoyed food with your families last week.

My food adventure this week was inspired by two of your fun links!

Adventurez in Childrearing shared two great links about cooking with kids. It was a reminder that I need to do it more...  Be sure to check out their Tuesday link-up where you can share your adventures cooking with your kids!

A Little Nosh posted about making green cupcakes using spinach which inspired me to make my zucchini muffins a little more green!  It took three rounds of experimentation, but I think I finally perfected what I'm calling "Green Monster Muffins" - my tribute to all the Green Monster Smoothie recipes which have been floating around the blogosphere!

Green Monster Muffins

Ingredients:

3 cups shredded zucchini

6 cups baby spinach

5 Tbs. melted butter

2 eggs

1 ½ cups sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 ½  tsp. baking soda

pinch salt

2 tsp. cinnamon

½ tsp. nutmeg

pepitas (pumpkin seeds without the shell) unsalted (raw are best but you can use roasted if they are unsalted).

Start by shredding the zucchini. Using a food processor is a great way to get kids excited about helping in the kitchen.

         (After shredding the zucchini, they wanted to try it…)

Next, put melted butter and 6 cups of spinach in the food processor (you will need to add the spinach a few cups at a time). Once blended, add the egg and process until combined.

Remove spinach mixture from the food processor and add the sugar and vanilla and then add the zucchini.

Mix all dry ingredients in a separate bowl.

Then, mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients.

Spoon into muffin tins (I prefer mini-muffins) and top with a sprinkling of pumpkin seeds.

Bake at 350 in a preheated oven. @12-15 minutes for a mini muffin and 20-25 minutes for full size muffins.


In addition to the link-ups listed in the sidebar, this post is linked up to Muffin Monday.