Berry Smash Muffins

The last thing I made with the berries were strawberry muffins, which just came out of the oven. Alex just tried one and said they're really good.

1 2/3 cups fresh strawberries
2/3 cups sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 425F

Grease just the bottoms of 12 muffins tins (or put paper baking cups in them)

Slightly smash berries with a fork in a large bowl (I used my Tupperware Power Chef and almost pureed them)

Stir in sugar, oil and eggs until mixed

Stir in other ingredients just until moistened

Spoon batter into muffin cups

Bake 15-18 minutes or until light golden brown or toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (it took 18 minutes for my oven)

Cool 5 minutes

|Remove from pan to continue cooling on a cooling rack

This recipe is actually from The Rainbow Bakery Children's Cookbook by Gold Medal. I found it on www.food.com