Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Eating healthy with low-fat pumpkin oat muffins

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This week CBS 58 teamed up with Komen Wisconsin to share some tasty recipes. Friday Oct. 9 Nikki Panico and CBS 58's Pauleen Le made delicious low-fat pumpkin oat muffins. 

For more information about Komen Wisconsin and the upcoming More than Pink Walk, click here.

Ingredients:

6 cups oat flake cereal
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup sugar
5 cups whole-wheat flour
5 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon dried ground ginger
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 cup golden raisins
2 eggs, beaten
1 15-ounce can pumpkin
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 quart low-fat buttermilk
¾ cup canola oil

Cooking directions:

Preheat oven to 400˚.

In a large bowl, mix together cereal, salt, sugar, flour, baking soda, ginger, and cinnamon. Stir in raisins.

In a separate bowl, combine eggs, pumpkin, vanilla, buttermilk, and oil and stir until blended.

Mix wet ingredients with dry until batter just holds together. Do not overmix.

Bake in cup-lined muffin pans for 17 minutes.