Healthy Breakfast Muffins

Submitted by Ravenhood

"These make great breakfast muffins – Not overwhelmingly sweet but sweet enough, satisfying and filling, loaded with nuts and raisins, plus honey, orange juice and carrots for extra oumph. This seems to be quite a flexible recipe."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Yields: 6 muffins
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 tablespoons rolled oats
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄8 - 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄3 cup raisins
• 1⁄4 cup walnuts (chopped)
• 1⁄4 cup honey
• 1⁄4 cup water
• 2 tablespoons orange juice
• 2 tablespoons carrots (finely shredded, packed)
• 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds
• 1 tablespoon oil

directions

1. Stir the dry ingredients together. In another bowl, mix wet ingredients together (make sure to soak the raisins for 5 minutes, then discard the water) and pour them into the dry mix bowl. Stir until just combined, then pour into 6 greased muffin molds and bake at 350F for 20 minutes. Once out of the oven, leave the muffins in the molds for 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack.