{"id":3066,"date":"2018-11-30T15:14:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2018-11-30T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:54:55","slug":"green-monster-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/30\/green-monster-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Monster Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\n2 cups whole wheat flour<br \/>\n1 \u00bd teaspoon cinnamon<br \/>\n2 teaspoons baking powder<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon baking soda<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon salt<br \/>\n\u00be cup milk<br \/>\n\u00bd cup honey<br \/>\n1 large ripe banana<br \/>\n6 ounces spinach<br \/>\n&nbsp;\u00bd cup unsalted butter<br \/>\n1 large egg<br \/>\n1 teaspoon vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nPreheat oven to 350\u00b0 and line a muffin pan with paper liners. We used green foil liners for Green Week!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl and combine, using a whisk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Melt the butter. Blend melted butter, spinach, and all the other wet ingredients in a blender until thoroughly pureed.<\/p>\n<p>Pour the green pureed mixture into the bowl of dry ingredients and blend until combined.<\/p>\n<p>Spoon the batter into the muffin cups and bake for 18\u201322 minutes, or until muffin tops are firm but not quite browning.<\/p>\n<p>Cool before serving.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">For more adventurous palates, you may want to add chopped walnut pieces and\/or dried cherries to the batter before baking. These muffins were a hit with the kids\u2014and such a great way to get them to eat spinach!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2 cups whole wheat flour 1 \u00bd teaspoon cinnamon 2 teaspoons baking powder \u00bd teaspoon baking soda \u00bd teaspoon salt \u00be cup milk \u00bd cup honey 1 large ripe banana 6 ounces spinach &nbsp;\u00bd cup unsalted butter 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Preheat oven to 350\u00b0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/30\/green-monster-muffins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Monster Muffins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}