Healthful Cinnamon Breakfast Muffins – RecipeTin Eats

August 31, 2024

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This can be a cinnamon flavoured Breakfast Muffin full of healthful components like apple, carrot, dried fruit and nuts. A variant of the favored Morning Glory muffins, it’s wholesome sufficient for breakfast, however simply candy sufficient for morning tea!

Cinnamon Breakfast Muffins

This can be a muffin that simply makes the reduce into breakfast-land in my books. It’s barely candy, with solely 12 grams of sugar per muffin, lower than 1 / 4 of what you discover in sugary cereals like Fruit Loops, and there’s a shocking quantity of good-for-you recent carrot and apple in it.

To cite Stephen, my head chef at RecipeTin Meals (my meals financial institution):

“I truly actually loved it. It was candy however not too candy. I didn’t suppose I used to be going to take pleasure in it as a result of it’s not my form of factor however yeah, good texture, good style and never too heavy.”

(By “his form of factor”, he’s referring to wholesomeness masquerading as a muffin. Or, a muffin masquerading as wholesomeness. He’s a burley northern English lad. I don’t know why, however I really feel that explains lots, in reference to those muffins. 😂)

PS That is Stephen. He is without doubt one of the funniest folks I do know. He has been recognized to have me collapse on the ground laughing!

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Components in Cinnamon Breakfast Muffins

Muffin add-ins

This can be a good recipe for utilizing leftover bits of dried fruit and nuts. You possibly can actually use something you need, and even seeds like pepitas and sunflower seeds.

Raisins and walnuts – These are the fruit and nuts I used, however as talked about above, you should utilize no matter you need or have. I like raisins over sultanas and currants as a result of they’re greater and plumper! And I really feel just like the earthy flavour of walnuts simply works on this entire breakfast muffin.
Coconut – For flavour, moisture retention within the crumb, and a contact of sweetness (although notice, I exploit unsweetened not sweetened). I exploit desiccated coconut which is the actually finely shredded coconut. Shredded coconut (the high quality strands) can even work however flakes will probably be too massive.

For those who don’t like or don’t have coconut, depart it out and add an additional 1 tablespoon of flour into the batter.
Granny Smith apple – That is my alternative of apple as a result of I like that it’s tart-sweet. However any color and number of apple will work right here. Use a medium to massive one. We’d like 1 1/4 cups of shredded flesh, together with the juices. Don’t tightly pack the cup to measure (ie don’t press the shredded apple down into the cup together with your hand),

Additionally, I don’t peel. There’s additional vitamins within the pores and skin!
Carrot – This recipe calls for two cups shredded carrot. As wth the apple, don’t tightly pack the cup to measure and don’t peel!

muffin batter

Not as many substitutions for the batter as a result of baking is a little bit of a science so there’s a motive for the quantity and use of components. However there are nonetheless some choices, which is at all times good!

Wholemeal flour – Often known as whole-wheat flour, it has extra diet in it than plain white flour. Although you should utilize common flour if that’s what you’ve bought!
Brown sugar – The muffin solely requires 3/4 cup which, throughout 12 muffins, is barely 12 grams per muffin which places it in “acceptable breakfast” territory in my books! You possibly can scale back right down to 1/2 cup however count on the crumb to be a contact much less delicate than excellent.
Baking soda (aka bicarbonate soda) – That is what makes the muffin rise. You possibly can substitute with 5 1/4 tsp baking powder however the muffin can have a barely much less delicate crumb. It’s not an enormous deal although and wouldn’t cease me from making it!
Cinnamon powder – The principle spicing for the batter and likewise provides the muffin a beautiful heat brown color!
Ginger powder – Additional spicing so not important. Substitute with all spice, pumpkin spice or related, or simply depart it out.
Oil – Any impartial flavoured oil is ok right here. I like to make use of plain olive oil (don’t use additional virgin olive oil, the flavour will dominate). Liquid coconut oil can even work however I’d suggest being cautious to not use one with a powerful coconut flavour as it’s going to overwhelm the muffin flavour.

Butter and non-liquid coconut oil (ie the kind it’s important to soften) will work however the muffins are a bit much less moist inside.
Orange juice – You possibly can substitute with any fruit juice you have got, or substitute with milk. It’s not vital, and you may’t style it. I simply wanted a bit extra liquid for the batter and selected orange juice to be on-theme for these breakfast muffins.

Cinnamon breakfast muffins batter (Morning Glory Muffins)

Making Cinnamon breakfast muffins (Morning Glory Muffins)

Methods to make Cinnamon Breakfast Muffins

You may get little bits of carrot and apple throughout your kitchen and your self. However the precise muffin batter half is tremendous duper straightforward!

The add-ins

Toast the walnuts for 8 minutes in a 190°C/375°F (170°C fan-forced) oven. It will convey out the flavour so you possibly can truly style walnut once you chew into a chunk within the muffin. It’s particularly essential in case your walnuts are a bit on the stale aspect.
Chop – Cool the walnuts on the tray then roughly chop.

Grate the carrots utilizing a regular field grater. I don’t peel the carrots. Free diet!
Grate the apple as effectively. Once more, I don’t peel!

Add-ins prepped. Now onto the batter!

The batter

Dry – Whisk the dry components in a big bowl to mix.
Moist – Whisk the moist components in a separate bowl till mixed.

💡 Whisk dry earlier than the moist components. For those who do the moist components first, the flour will get caught to the whisk once you whisk the dry components. It issues – what if it’s all baking soda that will get caught to the whisk?!

Add moist into dry – Pour the moist components into the dry components bowl.
Add-ins – Then add all of the add-ins. The carrot, apple, fruit and nuts.

Combine with a rubber spatula simply till you possibly can now not see flour. The combination will probably be pretty thick, thick sufficient to remain in a mound in within the muffin tin (see step 6 picture).
Fill – Fill the holes in a muffin tin sprayed with oil or lined with muffin instances. Use all of the combination – it’s going to mound above the rim, like pictured, assured muffins with beautiful domed tops!

💡An ice cream scoop with a lever is a quick method to fill muffin tins evenly and neatly.

Bake for 25 minutes or till the muffins are a deep golden brown and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clear.
Cool within the muffin tin for five minutes then switch to a rack to chill for at the least one other 5 minutes earlier than grabbing one! Don’t skip the cooling time. The muffins are fairly fragile when piping sizzling so are prone to breaking once you carry it out of the muffin tin. The resting time additionally permits the center to complete cooking (it’s going to style a bit under-cooked in the event you eat it immediately, one thing impatient folks like me can have skilled first hand).

You possibly can eat these plain – they’re filled with flavour and the crumb is so delicate and tender, it’s nice even at room temperature.

However I extremely encourage experiencing these at the least as soon as with a smear of evenly salted butter. Softened. Don’t attempt to unfold rock arduous butter on this delicate muffin, you’ll smush the crumb!

Bake them this weekend to tuck into lunch containers subsequent week, for after college snacking, guide membership, and breakfast on the run. Becoming for thus many functions! And an excellent shelf lifetime of 5 days. Get pleasure from! – Nagi x

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Healthful Cinnamon Breakfast Muffins – RecipeTin Eats

Cinnamon Breakfast Muffins