These healthy muffins are loaded with all of the good stuff- raisins, apple, carrots, walnuts, coconut and more. Moist and delicious, don't wait to make this recipe!
2cupsflour use whole wheat flour or gluten free 1:1 flour
2teaspoonbaking soda
¾teaspoonground ginger
2teaspoonground cinnamon
½teaspoonsalt
Wet Ingredients
3eggslarge
⅓cupcanola oil
½cupbrown sugarpacked
¼cuphoney
⅓cupunsweetened applesauce
⅓cuporange juice
1tsp vanilla
1appleshredded
1.75cupsshredded carrots
½ cup raisins
½cupwalnutschopped
⅓cupshredded coconutunsweetened
Instructions
Preheat oven to 425F. Prepare muffin tin by lining with muffin liners and spraying with nonstick spray. (This will make 17 total muffins).
In a small bowl, combine all dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine brown sugar and canola oil. Mix well. Add in the eggs and mix with a fork until eggs are beaten and mixture is combined.
Add in the honey, orange juice, applesauce and vanilla. Mix until combined.
Add the shredded apple, carrots, walnuts, raisins and coconuts. Mix well.
Mix the carrot mixture into the flour mixture. Stir until just combined and all ingredients are mixed.
Fill the muffin liners to the very top with batter.
Bake for 5 minutes at 425 and then reduce the oven to 375 and bake for a remaining 17 minutes. (Do not remove muffins from the oven when reducing temperature).
Muffins are done with a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the muffins.