Garden Oatmeal Muffins

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Another recipe from my favorite book. I have been trying to eat more vegetables with my diet and I found this recipe and it is perfect. I love the color and the flavour.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats

1 1/2 cup milk

1 egg

1/2 cup apple sauce

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

3 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 cup grated carrots

1 cut grated zucchini

Directions

In a small bowl cover oats with milk and let sit for 5 minutes and then add egg and applesauce, stir well. In medium bowl combine the rest of the ingredients until well blended. Spoon into greased muffin tins and bake at 400 F for 20 minutes.

Everything Muffins

We are hoping to move but last week we had our second offer fall through. I was so bummed! This house stuff is so stressful! Especially cleaning the darn house. One minute I am down and thinking the house will never sell and then we get another offer. Last night we got our 3rd offer and I think this is it. The people love the house you can tell and I think my mural in the nursery actually sold the house! I have always thought that the buyers would be like us and my nursery would sell the house. So here's hoping that I am right. I liked these muffins because they helped me to clean out my freezer and pantry. The less food I have to move the better. These muffins are delicious and healthy!

Ingredients

• 2 cups chopped peeled apples
• 1 cups sugar
• 1 cup chopped fdried cranberries like craisens
• 1 cup shredded carrots
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. In a bowl, combine apples and sugar; let stand for 10 minutes. Add cranberries, carrots, nuts, eggs and oil; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt; stir into apple mixture just until moistened. Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full.
2. Bake at 375 degrees F for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

Morning Glory Muffins

This morning Ally and I have had a baking spree; we made oatmeal cookies, apple crisp and muffins.  I discovered that I can't make cookies, the oatmeal cookies didn't turn out - they tasted great but didn't really stay together.  Good thing I like muffins better than cookies.

I discovered another muffin blog!  It is really great and I highly reccomend it.  That is where I got todays recipe from.  These muffins are really great, delicious and very healthy.  The amazing this that they have no form of fat at all and don't use applesauce!  They have 1 gram of fat and 130 calories.  These muffins are full of flavour and not to dense.

INGREDIENTS

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
2 cups carrots, shredded
1/2 cup raisins
2 apples, shredded or chopped
3 eggs
2 bananas, mashed
2 teaspoons vanilla

METHOD

Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease or line 20 muffin cups with paper liners.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in the carrots, raisins and apples.

Mash the bananas. In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs, bananas and vanilla. Stir the egg mixture into the carrot/flour mixture, mixing just until moistened.

Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake for 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into centre of a muffin comes out clean.

Orange Carrot Muffins

I have really missed making muffins so today instead of wasting the 3 oranges we had left I looked up a recipe.  I didn't realize how much Ally missed baking too, when I woke her up from her nap and asked if she wanted to make muffins she said,"Oh yeah, I love bakings!"  Which is just so cute!  And she has never said she loves something before.  I found this recipe here and I liked it because it used the whole orange and that fit with my goal of using the oranges.  I cut down the eggs and sugar and replaced half the oil with applesauce and added flax.  I was very scared about cutting out the eggs but I didn't have enough to triple the recipe (I had 3 oranges to use and lots of carrots) so I thought, "What the heck?  Let's try it."  So I did and they are delicious!  But....they didn't rise so I will put the eggs back in and if anyone makes these before I do let me know.  The muffins are nice and sweet with a slight bitter taste from the rind.  I will make these again.

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups vegetable oil

1 ¼ cup apples sauce

1 cups granulated sugar

2 eggs

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 tbsp flax

1 tsp  cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 orange

2 cups carrots

 

Directions

1.      Into food processor, chop up enough carrots for 2 cups.

2.      Then: Wash an orange, cut it up and chop in the food processor rind and all. Blend all the ingredients together and place in large muffin tins. Bake at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes.

3.      Makes 18 large muffins or 24 regular size muffins.