Morning Glory Muffins

When I was little I would often be greeted with “Morning Glory” and I made this recipe to surprise my sibling as a food way of saying “Morning Glory”. Filled with such tempting harvest flavors as carrots, tart apples and cinnamon, these muffins were as aromatic as they were flavorful. I only have a six muffin jumbo pan, so I have to time the baking better in my hotter than the average oven even, but even so, they delivered as baked celebrations of autumnal goodness pretty spectacularly.

Today somebody called me wordy. I have some choice, ahem, “words” for them, but I would call myself “unusually committed to specificity”. With all the goodness packed into these muffins, they might be called by other muffins the muffin equivalent of “wordy” and I think they would have the same reaction I am inclined to have. They would probably shrug their muffin shoulders and say “at least I am good at what I do, since it is my job to embrace brimming with the promise we look forward to every morning with.”

Morning glory muffins are kind of the muffin I probably most identify with. I am sweet, but in a crunchy earthy real way and I am surprisingly healthy. My inside is filled with gratitude for my roots and this is what the carrots most vibrantly represent. Though I am not definition of a “tart” in the British tradition, I have a little bit of the edge of sour apple and I also, like the apple, rejoice in the sun surrounded by my fellow trees.. There are some surprises in store for people who take me as simply at my hippie muffin exterior as I have some heat of ginger, some real substance in my sunflower seeds and I am the kind of muffin which leaves you satisfyed at least until lunch. I am the thinking man’s muffin and yet, I am the working man’s muffin. Morning Glory muffins, oh how I feel your pain when people don’t see you for all you bring to the table! Like my pal Morning Glory Muffin, people think I am from an era of bygone days where people believe in food which tells the truth, appreciates the land and celebrates the honor of the harvest, but newsflash people, these things are always in style.

Ingredients

2 cups of flour (Recipe called for whole wheat flour but I only had traditional flour)

cup f brown sugar

2 tsp of baking soda

0.5 tsp of salt

2 tsp of cinnamon

0.5 tsp of ground ginger

3 eggs

0.5 cup of vegetable oil

2 cups of grated carrots (3 -5 medium carrots; 6 sm carrots)

medium tart apple, peeled and grated

0.25 cup of sunflower seeds

0.5 shredded sweetened cocnout

0.25 cup of orange juice

2 tbls of vanilla extract

Plan of Attack

Grate your peeled carrots until you have two cups of shredded carrots

Peel and grate the apple into the same bowl of as the carrots and then add sunflower seeds, and raisins (optional). In your other mixing bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking soda, spices and salt. Add this mixture into the apple mixture. Mix throughly and then in the empty mixing bowl (we believing in conserving water at Miss D Cooks!) mix the wet ingredients using your whisk. Combine all the ingredients and mix throughly. Put into your nonstick or greased muffin pan. Put in the oven for 23-25 minutes.

Bake and enjoy sharing with he harvest lovers in your life!