What's Cooking Wednesday

This past weekend, I opened the pantry door to grab a box of muffin mix only to find that the box I thought was a box of muffin mix was a pie crust mix. So, as to not want to disappoint my girls, I pulled out my Betty Crocker's Healthy New Choices cookbook and found a muffin recipe for which I had the core ingredients, just not the fringe ingredient, coconut. They took some time, but in the end these little "Morning Glory" muffins turned out to be quite tasty. They are more like a bran muffin and dense, not your typical sweet muffin, but my girls thought they were great. They are also very filling. Now I am glad that we were out of muffin mix and I look forward to making more homemade muffins of all varieties.

Here is the recipe for the Morning Glory Muffins:
1 Cup Fiber One Ceral (I substituted the above cereal because it is what we had)
2/3 cup skim milk
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour

3/4 Cup chopped unpeeled apple
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup shredded carrot
1/4 cup flaked coconut (only ingredient omitted)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3 egg whites
1 Tbs vegetable oil
3 tsp baking powder
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt

Heat Oven to 375 degrees. Grease bottoms only of 12 medium muffin cups. Crush cereal or pulse in food processor. Mix cereal in milk and let stand for 5 minutes. Stir in remaining ingredients. Divide evenly into muffin cups.

Bake 22-25 minutes, 18-20 for a convection oven.

Immediately remove from pan and place on cooling rack.

Enjoy!

***I am participating in Patty's Manual Mode Linky Party. The above photo was taken with the following stats:

1/125, f 6, ISO 1600. I am shooting with a Nikon D90 and a Tamron lens 18-270mm. The position of the zoom dictates my aperture, so I compensate indoors with my ISO. Still eyeing my prime lens which will give me clearer images.