Butternut squash muffins with a frosty top
My kids love these squash muffins. They taste a bit like carrot cake, as the two vegetables are very similar – I've simply swapped carrots for squash. Both of them are wonderful carriers of flavours like cinnamon, cloves and vanilla. The skin of a butternut squash goes deliciously chewy and soft when cooked, so there's no need to peel it off. Give these little cakes a go – they're a perfect naughty-but-nice treat. And a great way of getting your kids to eat squash!
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 10 of 16 ingredients — the other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Walnut | 1 walnut half (4g) | 26 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Pumpkin | not in our table | 0 |
| Clementine | not in our table | 0 |
| Lavender | not in our table | 0 |
| Flower | not in our table | 0 |
| Rose | not in our table | 0 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 400 g butternut squash, skin on, deseeded and roughly chopped
- 350 g light soft brown sugar
- 4 large free-range eggs
- sea salt
- 300 g plain flour, unsifted
- 2 heaped tablespoons baking powder
- 1 handful walnuts
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 175 ml extra virgin olive oil
- zest of 1 clementine
- zest of 1 lemon and juice of ½ a lemon 1 lemon
- 140 ml soured cream
- 2 heaped tablespoons icing sugar, sifted
- lavender flowers or rose petals, optional
- 1 vanilla pod, split lengthways and seeds scraped out