Orange Nut Muffins
Ingredients
- 6 each eggs, separated
- 0.3 tsp cream of tartar
- 4 each Splenda packets
- 0.3 cup soy flour
- 0.3 cup walnuts, ground
- 1 tsp orange extract, divided
- 1 tbsp Brown Sugar Twin
- 4 oz cream cheese
- 0.3 cup heavy cream
- 8 each Splenda packets
- 1 tsp orange extract
- 2 0.6 g carb minus .03 for fiber= 2.3 grams carb ea.
Instructions
- 1
Beat egg whites with cream of tartar and add 4 Splenda packets.
- 2
Beat whites until stiff.
- 3
Sprinkle the 1/2 teaspoon orange extract over this.
- 4
In separate bowl, beat yolks with 4 Splenda packets and 1 tablespoon Brown Sugar Twin.
- 5
Add 1/2 teaspoon orange extract.
- 6
Take a big spoonful of whites and add to yolk mixture and mix together, then pour yolk mixture over whites.
- 7
Mix 1/4 cup soy flour with 1/4 cup ground walnuts (doesn't have to be super fine).
- 8
Fold all this together and pile mixture into 12 muffin cups sprayed with Pam.
- 9
Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes until tops of muffins are browned.
- 10
Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F, and bake another 15 minutes.
- 11
Cool and ice with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting if desired.
- 12
Orange Cream Cheese Frosting 4 ounces cream cheese 1/4 cup whipping cream 1 teaspoon orange extract Splenda to taste 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