Coconut–Cashew Muffins (Reduced Sugar)

Name: Coconut–Cashew Muffins (Reduced Sugar)
Yield: Makes 12 muffins
Ingredients: 1⅔ cups, unsweetened flaked coconut; 1¼ cups, roasted unsalted cashews, chopped; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces; 1½ cups, plain whole-milk yogurt; 2 , large eggs; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon, grated lime zest; 2¾ cups, cake flour (11 ounces); 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons, coconut sugar (5¼ ounces); 2 teaspoons, baking powder; ½ teaspoon, baking soda; ¾ teaspoon, salt

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Desserts or Baked Goods

Reduced Sugar

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Delicately flavored tropical coconut and buttery, nutty cashews are a perfect pair, but between these sweet add-ins and the even sweeter batter, coconut-cashew muffins can easily begin to veer into dessert territory.

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SERVESMakes 12 muffins

TIME1½ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling

Sugar16 grams (down from 37)

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from Naturally Sweet

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To keep these muffins from becoming dessert, we started with one of our basic muffin recipes, cut the sugar in half, and used coconut sugar in lieu of granulated. Although the coconut sugar lent subtle coconut flavor to the muffins, it was ...

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