Monday, March 8, 2010

Carrot apple muffins

I may have posted this recipe before, but I changed it around a little and added apples to the recipe. I liked these muffins more, they were a little sweeter and more moist. I also did not have enough brown sugar so I used the natural brown sugar that I had. It is coarse so it gave the muffin a little extra texture.

Recipe:

3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour (I buy in the bulk section at Whole Foods)
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 cup canola oil
3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup natural applesauce
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups shredded carrots
1 shredded apple (I used green)
1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts (I leave these out since my kids do not like nuts in their muffins)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 12 muffin cups.

Sift together the first 6 ingredients. In a large bowl, whisk the oil, brown sugar and eggs until well combine. Whisk in the applesauce, vanilla, carrots and apple. Add the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Stir in nuts if desired.

Divide in the muffin cups. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean about 20 minutes.

2 comments:

Carrie said...

Oh...that sounds wonderful! Thanks for posting the recipe!

Unknown said...

Yeah, thanks for posting this recipe. These sound delicous! I will give them a try with the kids soon! :)