morning glory muffins

[cimorene]

these are another favourite i was introduced to in my amherst college days.  i made them again just now and they turned out highly successful.  i think "morning glory" is a pun on the colour/the absolute gloriousness:  they're made with carrot, apple, raisins, nuts, and coconut.  it tastes to me a lot like charoset in a delicious, moist cakey form.  i think i've already eaten six of them (oops).


morning glory muffins

4,8 dL flour                                        (2 cups)
3 dL white sugar                                (1 1/4 cups)
2 t baking soda
2 t cinnamon
dash of nutmeg
dash of cloves
1/4 t salt
2 Tablespoons vanilla sugar                (2 t vanilla extract)

4,8 dL grated carrots                          (2 cups)
1 1/4 dL raisins                                    (1/2 cup) 
1 1/4 dL finely-chopped nuts              (1/2 cup)
1 1/4 dL coconut flakes                      (1/2 cup)
1 apple: peeled, cored and shredded
3 eggs
2,4 dL oil                                            (1 cup)

preheat oven to 175 C (350 F).  mix the dry ingredients well.  add carrots, raisins, nuts, coconut and apple and mix.  in a separate bowl, beat the eggs and oil.  fold into the carrot mixture just enough to moisten. bake 13-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Comments

[schonste.livejournal.com]

Haha, going to college at MHC has also introduced me to morning glory muffins. None of my friends (myself included) like them though. XD Probably the carrot.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh, come on, carrots are divine! they're cheap, full of vitamins, pleasantly crisp and clean-tasting, and sweet. also, very starchy, which is good for energy. they make some of the best baked goods in terms of both flavour and texture.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Sounds lovely :) You sure don't bake anything half assed. In my baking days, I was always like "uh, I got eggs, and sugar.. do I have flour? okay, what else?" Admittedly, I had a longer trip to the store and I thought that the "special" ingredients were expensive.

You wouldn't happen to have a good banana bread recipe? It's a really foreign concept in Finland and I would like to try it out sometimes

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i do indeed! i absolutely love banana bread. wax and i ate a ton of it last summer. i've just posted my mother's recipe for you. :)

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Heh. I am stupid. I was looking at the recipe and going, "Oh yum. I wonder if I could make this without raisins and coconut and apple and cinnamon..." and then I realized I might as well make very bland ordinary muffins then. Curses! Life would be so much more fun if I liked all sorts of baking ingredients.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

what, you don't like apple and cinnamon either? o.O

i've got a pretty good recipe for plain oatmeal honey muffins. wax thinks they're not sweet enough, but the idea with muffins is that they should be fairly healthy snackfood, not like cupcakes or anything. plus you should microwave them, slice them in half and eat them with butter and honey on

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

I like apple as apple, but not as jam or as apple-mixed-with-other-stuff. I don't like mixing different tastes. I've got no excuse for my anti-cinnamon stance, though. ;)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i love applesauce! which you crazy finnish people don't have. but it's very good when you've got an upset stomach or something too. i can actually understand (though not sympathise with!) the not-liking cinnamon. it's got a strong flavour and it's the kind of thing that makes you sneeze. also, it has that potential to burn your tongue, as in cinnamon candy. (mmmh.)

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

That's right, cinnamon is a sneezy flavour! When I was a kid I described some flavours as go-up-my-nose flavours. I still don't like them, I guess my nose is oversensitive or something, it connects to taste sensations very strongly.