Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins. Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins Came up with these this morning trying to use up some leftover fruit and these are definitly hearty and yummy! renee. These have a lightly sweet flavor and lots of wholesome ingredients to get your day started. Moist, chewy, and not overly dense.

The leftovers always make good breakfast treats. Through the years I've tried many cranberry recipes for bread and muffins, but this remains my family's all-time favorite! —Flo Burtnett, Gage, Oklahoma Mix the water, honey, dates, and baking soda together in a saucepan, and bring to a boil. Delicious heart-healthy recipes from the nutrition experts at Mayo Clinic. You can have Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins using 16 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins

Prepare 1 cup of fresh chopped strawberries.
It's 2 tbsp of granulated sugar.
It's 1 cup of granulated sugar.
It's 1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
You need 1/2 cup of mashed fresh watermelon (with its juices).
It's 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
It's 2 large of eggs.
Prepare 4 large of pinches lemon zest.
You need 4 tbsp of buttermilk.
Prepare 1 cup of fresh blueberries.
You need 3/4 cup of small chopped walnuts.
It's 1 1/2 tbsp of toasted watermelon seeds.
It's of optional:.
It's 1 of cool whip.

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Hearty Fruit Salad Muffins instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Place strawberries in a small bowl and sprinkle the 2tbl. Sugar on top. Let stand 15 minutes to let it emit juices. Set aside..
In a large bowl wisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside..
In a medium bowl wisk together, watermelon, strawberries and all their juices, eggs, buttermilk, sugar and zest..
Add wet to dry..
Stir together until just incorporated. Do not overmix..
Fold in blueberries and walnuts..
Line 14 regular cupcake/muffin pan cups with paper liners. Or spray well with baking spray..
Fill all 14 evenly with batter. It should be filled almost to the top of the liners..
Sprinkle each evenly with toasted watermelon seeds..
Bake about 22 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean..
Let stand a few minutes..
Transfer to wire rack for cooling..
Serve and enjoy..
Optional top with a dollop of cool whip just before serving.
HINTS AND NOTES:.
You can use oil or melted butter in replace of the buttermilk..
You may use orange or lime zest in replace of the lemon zest..
You can find my recipe for toasted watermelon seeds in my profile..
Makes about 14 normal sized muffins..

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