Description
These Morning Glory Muffins are jam packed with nutritious ingredients like apples, carrots, walnuts, coconut, and whole grains. This is an easy one-bowl recipe and is a family favorite breakfast.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 3/4 cup coconut sugar
- 1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 cup grated apple (from 1 large)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups grated carrot (from 2–4 carrots, depending on size)
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a muffin pan with paper liners or silicone muffin cups (<—my preference)
- In a large bowl, whisk together the whole wheat pastry flour, coconut sugar, oats, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and salt.
- Stir in the applesauce, coconut oil, grated apple, and vanilla.
- Fold in the grated carrot, raisins, coconut, and walnuts.
- Distribute the batter evenly to the muffin cups.
- Bake in the 400 degree oven for 10 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 350 degrees and continue to bake another 10 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin has just a few crumbs sticking to it.
- Allow to cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then transfer to a baking rack to cool completely. Enjoy!
Notes
Ingredient Substitutions
I typically get a lot of ingredient substitutions questions. Luckily, this recipe is flexible. Here are my suggestions!
- Whole Wheat Pastry Flour – If you don’t have whole wheat pastry flour on hand, you can use regular whole wheat flour, the muffins will be just a bit less light/more dense. You can also use All-Purpose flour or a mix of All-Purpose flour and whole wheat flour.
- Coconut Sugar – Regular brown sugar may be used in place of the coconut sugar. If you’d like to eliminate added sugars all together, I suggest using Golden Monkfruit Sweetener.
- Raisins – You can use dried cranberries or chopped dates in place of the raisins.
- Walnuts – A different nut can be used in place of the walnuts. I suggest pecans.
- Coconut Oil – If you don’t want to use coconut oil, you can use a neutral oil of your choice, like avocado oil.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: muffin recipes
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: american
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 muffin
- Calories: 257
- Sugar: 20.3 grams
- Fat: 9.6 grams
- Saturated Fat: 7.6 grams
- Trans Fat: 0 grams
- Carbohydrates: 40.4 grams
- Fiber: 4 grams
- Protein: 3.5 grams