I am really not a morning person. I am grumpy, sleepy and move very slowly while trying to let various animals out and get breakfast into Rebecca who insists on being fed before I get coffee. I find it all especially hard when it is still dark out. That’s where muffins come in. You can make them on Sunday afternoon and have at least a few mornings of breakfast started. Makes these cold dark mornings just a little bit more manageable.
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon honey
3/4 cup sunflower oil (or another light cooking oil like grapeseed or canola)
1 small zucchini grated
2 large carrot grated
1 cup raisins
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
Preheat your oven to 350. Line or grease 24 muffin cups.
Whisk eggs, sugar and honey together.
Add the oil, then vanilla, and then the grated zucchini and carrots along with the raisins.
Combine your dry ingredients in another bowl.
Whisk the flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and oats together.
Combine the dry ingredients and wet ingredients together slowly.
Divide the mixture evenly into your greased or lined muffin tins.
Bake 18-20 minutes at 350.
Remove from tins and cool on wire racks.
These are so good. Sometimes I throw half a cup of finely chopped walnuts for extra goodness. Enjoy!
Have had a few questions about the napkins. Ryan put these awesome apple napkins in my stocking this christmas, they’re from JAQSstudio on etsy.
If Nate will eat these I’ll be thrilled. He usually likes muffins in the morning a lot, and these have the added bonus of vegetables! Thanks!
With enough butter I find you can make toddlers eat most things
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Thanks so much! We really love these napkins.
I’m making these tomorrow during brunch with a friend! I’ll be using spelt flour.
That’s awesome Caro, let me know how they turn out.
These looks so delicious! I am going to make these this weekend!
Those look really good!
Just curious – it says steel cut oats in the ingredients, but from the photo it looks like you used rolled oats. If I used steel cut oats, would they actually cook in such a small amount of time?
Sorry! I have used both in the past but I like the rolled oats better as the steel cut oats add too much texture. I’m going to correct that now. So the cooking time is the same but the rolled oats blend in better.