I’m a procrastinator. I remember scrambling to finish English papers in high school as the teacher was walking up the down the rows to collect them. This was, of course, because I’d waited until 11:30 pm the night before the paper was due to start working on it. Perhaps if I’d received bad grades I’d have learned my lesson, but I always did well so I never changed my ways. I procrastinated throughout college, during law school and even to this day, if something doesn’t have to be done today I’ll put it off until tomorrow.
We had friends coming into town to stay with us for one night at the start of the long July 4th weekend. About 15 minutes before they were to arrive I realized we didn’t have anything in the house for breakfast and decided I should make muffins. So maybe in addition to being a procrastinator, I’m a bad hostess not thinking ahead about what we’d feed our friends. I frantically flipped through my America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book looking for ideas. I decided on the morning glory muffins because I’d never made them before and was intrigued by the combination of raisins, carrots, pineapple, and coconut.
Our friends wound up hitting a ton of traffic so thankfully I finished the muffins long before they arrived. I tried one when they came out of the oven (you know, just to make sure they were ok) and loved it! The muffins are sweet and have a really warm flavor, thanks to the cinnamon. They were a hit with our friends the next morning too! I think they were pleasantly surprised that all of the flavors worked together. I can definitely see making these again and perhaps trying to make them even healthier by subbing whole wheat flour for some of the all-purpose.
Morning Glory Muffins
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 large eggs
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 medium carrots, peeled and grated (2 cups)
1 8-oz can crushed pineapple, drained and pressed dry with paper towels
1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup walnuts or pecans, toasted and chopped coarse (I omitted)
Preheat oven to 375 F. Grease a 12-cup muffin tin (or use paper liners).
Whisk the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt together in a large bowl. In a small bowl, whisk the sugar, eggs, melted butter and vanilla together until smooth. Gently fold the sugar mixture into the flour mixture with a rubber spatula until just combined. Fold in the carrots, pineapple, coconut, raisins, and walnuts until just combined.
Using a greased 1/3 cup measure, portion the batter into each muffin cup. Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out with just a few crumbs attached, 25 to 30 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking.
Let the muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then flip out onto a wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes before serving.
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These look FANTASTIC! I love pineapple.
I love muffins! Thanks for the nice recipe. I will try them with spelt flour.
Well your friends are lucky to have these for breakfast. they look great!
What a great good morning treat! These are beautiful. The pineapple would keep them moist– and delicious! Great combination of goodies in these! Cool photo too!
Yummy!!! Carrot anything is one of my favorites!
I can sooo win the Procrastinator title! ๐ These look great!!!
YUM! They look great! Not a bad hostess, you made homemade muffins. That’s more than a lot of people would do. really.
I saw these and was going to make them, but wasn’t too sure about all the addins. I’m so glad you liked these because I can put them on my to-make list now!
I love morning glory muffins! These look amazing! I’m glad I’m not the only person who carried procrastination into adulthood.
Those look great–really colorful. I’ve been wanting to get that cookbook. I have the ATK Family Cookbook, but not the baking book.
Haha you must be the only praising thankful for traffic! These look delicious ๐
yum! i am bookmarking these and making them w/cream cheese frosting ๐
I did a search on tastespotting.com for Morning Glory Muffins and came across this yummy recipe! I’m going to bake them now – thanks for sharing.
the recipe’s in the 1st ed. family cookbook too. i’ve had it for years and always wondered how they’d turn out so googled it and came across your blog! i made them with craisins instead of raisins and toasted pecans and they turned out great!