BY SYBILLE C. DENNINGER

Well once again we had a bit of snow this afternoon but I was just out long enough to enjoy the 15 minutes of sunshine and humane temperatures. This put me in an excellent mood, so I threw on the ipod with my crazy music mix (Abba to ZZ Top and everything in between including Les Miserables and Tchaikovsky, ipods were invented for me!), and got into baking. Now baking is NOT my strong suit, I have been known to royally mess up even boxed cake mixes. I don't like to measure and use too many utensils. But for some reason this receipe for fat free muffins my friend Debi from Tap dancing class gave to me, never fails to please. It is super easy and so delicious. Bonus if you have a cute muffin tin like the one I used from NordicWare :-) Enjoy!

Fat-Free Raspberry Muffins

2 ¼ cup sifted all-purpose flour

1/3 cup granulated sugar

3 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

2 eggs

½ cup unsweetened applesauce

½ cup skim milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 pint raspberries, lightly mashed with fork

Heat oven to 400 degrees

Spray muffin pan or paper muffin cups with Pam Baking Spray

Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt

Beat eggs. Blend in vanilla, milk and applesauce

Add liquid to dry ingredients. Stir quickly just until moistened.

Fold in raspberries

Spoon into the muffin pan or paper cups

Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes or until golden brown

Remove to wire rack

Also delicious made with blueberries or sliced strawberries (use one cup)