Harvest Muffins

Ingredients

• Brown rice flour – 1 cup
• Old Fashioned Oats – 1 cup
• Baking Soda – 3 tsp
• Cinnamon – 2 tsp
• Light Brown Sugar – 1 cup
• Pureed Apple – 3/4 cup
• Rice Drink – 3/4 cup
• Vanilla Protein Powder – 3 tbsp
• Eggs – 3
• Raisins – 1/2 cup
• Chopped almonds – 1/2 cup
• Flaked coconut – 1/2 cup
• Pineapple-crushed (with juice) – 1 cup
• Shredded carrots – 2 cups
• Olive Oil – 3 tbsp

Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.

Blend together flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon, sugar, and protein powder.  In a separate container, mix apple, rice drink, eggs, and olive oil.  Pour liquid mixture into dry powder blend with mixing.

Mix in: raisins, walnuts, coconut, carrots, and pineapple. 

Prepare a muffin pan using baking spray to avoid sticking.  Spoon mixture into individual muffin cups, until each cup is nearly full, as these muffins don’t rise much.  Bake 25-minutes, or until golden brown and mixture comes clean to a toothpick.  Cool and serve.

Makes 24-regular sized muffins.

My notes:

I exchanged:
rice drink for buttermilk
brown rice flour for wheat flour
pureed apple for apple butter
light brown sugar for white sugar
almonds for walnuts
crushed pineapple for pineapple tidbits
I also extended baking time 5 minutes.
Special note:for larger muffins add 5 minutes.
I pureed the apple in a blender.

I based my recipe on the recipe found at:
http://livefitblog.com/2009/11/16/healthy-harvest-muffins/