Ingredients:
- 1-1/2 C organic whole wheat flour (I used white whole wheat flour)
- 1 tsp. each baking soda and baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ tsp. cinnamon
- ¼ tsp. nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ C honey
- 1 egg
- ½ C sour milk or plain unflavored yogurt (I used the yogurt)
- ⅓ C canola oil
- ½ tsp. vanilla
- 1-½ C grated apples or carrots (used cored, unpeeled apples chopped in my food processor)
- 1 C finely chopped kale or raw leafy green vegetable (I took off the stems and then chopped the leaves fine in my food processor)
- ½ C each cranberries, Almonds
Method:
- Preheat oven to 400.
- In a mixing bowl, mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices.
- In another bowl, mix honey, egg, yogurt, oil, vanilla, apples, kale, dried fruit and nuts.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, stirring just till moistened.
- Fill 12 typical size greased muffin cups 2/3 full.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
Made 12 very full muffins. And delicious for breakfast, as a snack, or even as a healthy dessert!
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Awesome! I just found this after clicking to your kale hummus recipe from homegrown. Funny, because I JUST posted a recipe for chard muffins, and I thought i’d invented greens in sweet muffins!
Ill be looking around more…
CJ
Haha that is awesome! I am a big fan of using leafy greens in just about anything! I try to add them to everything~ So any recipes you would like to share, send them our way!!