Healthy Muffin Recipes - Morning Glory Muffin Recipe

Our Morning Glory Muffin Recipe is quite a healthy muffin recipe.

The addition of pineapple and raisins to a carrot muffin recipe makes these muffins both good and good for us.

It is a great way to get carrots into the non vegetable lover in your family.

I really like carrot muffins, but the first time I tasted them with pineapple added to the mix, I was really sold.

These muffins are amazing. Sweet and delicious as well as quite healthy.

A great way to get the kids to eat their fruit and veggies.

Muffin recipes with buttermilk are nice and tender.

CookingNook.com's Morning Glory Muffins

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/8 teaspoon allspice
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 - 14 ounce can crushed pineapple, drained
3/4 cup carrots, finely grated
1/2 cup raisins

Preheat oven to 400°F.

Lightly oil or spray 12 muffin cups or line with paper cups.

Stir flour together with baking powder, baking soda, salt, spices and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Whisk egg in a medium sized bowl with buttermilk, oil and vanilla. Stir in pineapple.

Pour into flour mixture and stir until just combined. Stir in carrots and raisins. Spoon batter into muffin cups. Bake 15-17 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Yield: 12 muffins

The trick to keeping this muffin recipe really tender, as with all muffins, is to mix the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients really well before combining them, then just mix them together enough to incorporate them. Over mixing will make muffins tough.