Pineapple Muffins

•1/2 cup butter or margarine (softened)
•1 & 1/2 cups sugar
•2 eggs (beaten)
•2 & 1/2 cups flour
•2 & 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
•1 & 1/2 cups crushed pineapple (do not drain)
•1/2 teaspoon salt
•1 teaspoon vanilla
•1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts

With mixer cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla and crushed pineapple. Mix well. Mix the flour, salt and baking powder together. Add to first mixture mixing well. Fill muffin tins lined with paper or sprayed with cooking spray 2/3 full. Bake in 350 degree preheated oven for 18 – 20 minutes or test with toothpick. Makes about 2 dozen small or about 1 dozen large.

May also be baked in mini loaf pans or large muffin tins with paper liners or sprayed with cooking spray. Test for doneness with toothpick after 20 – 25 minutes. May be glazed or frosted.

With streusel topping.