Ingredients:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup whole wheat flour (you can use 100% all-purpose if you prefer)
- 1 cup date sugar (any sugar will work, but will yield sweeter results)
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ⅓ cup unsweetened, flaked coconut, more to top
- ½ cup golden raisins
- zest of 1 orange
- 1 small apple peeled and grated (about 1 cup)
- 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 cup grated carrot
- ⅓ cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans, plus more to top
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup unsweetened apple sauce (preferably homemade – I make and freeze into 1 cup portions every fall)
- 1½ tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions:
- Place oven rack in lower third of oven and preheat to 350°
- In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
- Add the coconut, raisins, orange zest, apple, pineapple, carrots and stir to combine.
- In a separate bowl, whisk eggs with the applesauce and vanilla. Add to the dry ingredients, and blend well.
- Spoon batter into muffin tins lined with muffin cups. Spritz the muffin cups with cooking spray. Fill almost all the way, they don’t rise much.
- Press extra nuts and coconut flakes onto the tops, if desired.
- Bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool muffins in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to finish cooling.
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