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Morning Glory Muffins

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These Morning Glory Muffins are delicious, nutrition packed muffins! Perfect for breakfast, sent in lunches or enjoyed as an afternoon snack.

Ingredients

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  • 1/2 cup apple sauce (See Notes)
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 1/2 cups shredded carrots
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened flaked coconut
  • 1 apple (peeled, cored and shredded)

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line a muffin tin with paper liners. This recipe makes 24 muffins so you will need to bake it in two batches.
  3. Using a mixer, mix together the apple sauce, vegetable oil and vanilla.
  4. Add the eggs, mixing in one egg at a time.
  5. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
  6. Then stir in the shredded carrots, raisins, nuts, shredded coconut, and apple.
  7. Add the sugar/egg mixture to the carrot/flour mixture and stir until just moistened.
  8. Scoop the muffin batter into the prepared muffin cups.
  9. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into centre of a muffin comes out clean.

Notes

We use homemade apple sauce for these muffins, but any apple sauce you have on hand will work just fine!

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