Morning Glory Muffins

These delectable Morning Glory Muffins are loaded with dried fruit, carrots, nuts, and spices like cinnamon and ginger for added flavor. These moist muffins are perfect for those busy on-the-go school day breakfasts and long, leisurely Sunday brunches with family.

Course muffins

Cuisine American

Keyword best morning glory muffins, morning glory muffin recipe, what is a morning glory muffin

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 20

Servings muffins

Calories 354kcal

Author Beth Pierce

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 tablespoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground ginger
⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
¾ cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¾ cup brown sugar
2 cups shredded carrots
1 cup peeled and shredded apple
½ cup raisins
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup flaked coconut

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
Whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl. In a medium bowl, stir together the eggs, oil, vanilla extract, brown sugar, carrots, and apple. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients stirring just until barely incorporated.
Fold in the raisins, walnuts, and coconut. Avoid any over-stirring or overmixing so the dough does not get tough.
Line the muffin pan with muffin liners. Spoon the batter into the muffin liners filling them all the way up. Bake for 10 minutes. Then reduce the oven to 350 degrees. Bake an additional 10-12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Notes

Line the cupcake/muffin tin with liners. They really help keep the muffins from sticking to the pan. I really like the unbleached chlorine-free ones. They peel away perfectly from muffins and cupcakes.
Shred the carrots using the small grate side of a box grater.
Do not overmix the batter. Mix just until combined and no further. Overmixing the batter can cause overactive gluten, leading to tough and gummy muffins.
Do not overbake the muffins. Cook until a toothpick inserted in the top center of one of the muffins comes out fairly clean with just a few moist crumbs.

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