If you haven’t tasted a morning glory muffin yet, drop everything and make these right away! Gluten-Free Morning Glory Muffins are incredibly moist breakfast muffins packed with loads of flavor. An assortment of carrots, nuts, apples, and coconut create amazing texture in each muffin that’s incomparable!
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What Makes a morning glory muffin?
Morning glory muffins were a product of the American 70s and were known to be filled with various vegetables, nuts, and grains.
Everyone’s recipe varies slightly, but generally you can expect to find any assortment of the following fillers: carrots, apples, zucchini, walnuts, raisins, and coconut.
I love a heart weekend breakfast consisting of an egg scramble and breakfast potatoes, but on workdays I craze a meal that’s satisfying and fuels me for my busy day. Lately, overnight oats have been on rotation but I discovered this recipe for healthy morning glory muffins that immediately got my attention!
I loved that there was so much substance in these muffins between the carrot, apple, walnut, and coconut. There’s also no refined sugar and all the sweetness comes from the honey and apple.
I continue to make these muffins regularly and tweak the recipe slightly each time, but I think I’ve found what really hits the spot for me! Easily make them with white flour or gluten
How to: Make Gluten-Free Morning Glory Muffins
Preheat the oven to 375˚F. Line a 12-count muffin pan with paper liners or heavily spray with cooking spray.
Start by shredding the apple and carrot using a grater. Set aside.
In a small bowl, mix the dry ingredients: gluten free flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt
In a large bowl, mix the wet ingredients: whisk eggs, honey, melted coconut oil, and vanilla extract until smooth.
Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir until well incorporated
Add in the shredded apple, carrot, coconut, and walnuts and combine.
Pour the batter into the muffin tray. Any excess batter can be placed in a small oven-safe container and baked alongside it.
Bake for 16-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean!
Ingredients Needed
Materials Needed
Gluten Free Morning Glory Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ½ heaping cup gluten free flour (sub whole wheat flour or all-purpose flour)
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 dash of salt
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/3 cup coconut oil melted
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 apple grated
- 1 large carrot peeled and grated
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup walnuts roughly chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375˚F. Line a 12-count muffin pan with paper liners or heavily spray with cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, mix the dry ingredients: gluten free flour, cinnamon,baking soda, and salt.
- In a large bowl, mix the wet ingredients: whisk eggs, honey, melted coconut oil, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir until well incorporated
- Add in the shredded apple, carrot, coconut, and walnuts and combine.
- Pour into the muffin tray. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, about 16-18 minutes
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What are your favorite kinds of muffins to make at home? Do you have any special breakfast muffins that your family loves? Share below!
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I had my fair share of issues of finding gluten-free muffins that tasted great and I love the idea of adding veggies and nuts to it! A must-try for sure, thanks for sharing x
It can be a struggle sometimes! I hope you enjoy these 🙂
I love any sort of carrot cake and these look delicious, love that they’re gluten-free too xx
Me too!! So many pluses here!
Ooh Kalin these sound great! I am always looking for healthy breakfast options and these sound perfect. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe, I’ve pinned it for later!
That’s so great to hear, I hope you like them!
Ooh Kalin these sound great! I am always looking for healthy breakfast options and these sound perfect. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe, I’ve pinned it for later!
I hope you like them! I’m thinking about making them again tomorrow 🙂
These sound amazing. I’ve never actually had muffins for breakfast. I definitely want to give these a try.
A good muffin can keep me satisfied until lunch – a definite must!
These sound really simple to make. Easy for a busy morning rush, flavour combo seems great too, thanks for sharing.
These sound like the perfect breakfast muffin and they look delicious!
Thanks so much!
I love making muffins. Always make a batch and then freeze them so I can have anytime. They look so good so I’ll be making these in the weekend. Looking forward to trying!
I love making a big batch and freezing some!
I have been having issues with gluten recently but issue with the fact that I can’t have the desserts that I love lol! This is perfect! I can still make some tasty muffins and they are gluten-free. Thanks for sharing!
I really hope you find something new that you like! Thanks for checking it out!
My boyfriend was put on a gluten free diet, I’ll have to give these a try. Your photos make them look even more delish.
Thank you so much! I hope you both enjoy!
I love morning glory muffins but I never thought to make them myself. What a delightful recipe. Adding it to my weekend to-do list. Yum!
This was my first time making them too, but had always loved them!
As soon as I saw the title of this post I got so excited, I love Morning Glory Muffins and always try to switch to gluten free ingredients when I can – so this was the perfect match! I’ve pinned the recipe to try an upcoming weekend – they sound delicious! Thanks for sharing.
That’s awesome to hear, I really hope you like it!
I’m always looking for gluten-free recipes! Thank you so much for this one! Have to try it out soon!
That’s great to hear 🙂
Wow this looks so delicious, I would love to try..
Thanks!
Carrots and apples in one muffin? Sounds great to me! My kids will love these, will make them this week!
Yay I hope you all enjoy!
These sound amazing! I love muffins with lots of extras added in! Never tried coconut in a recipe like this, sounds so delicious!
It adds such great texture!
Morning glory muffins are one of my favourite choices when they are available. I really need to try making some. These look delicious!
I love how simple it is to recreate them at home!
These look amazing – a little nit carrot cake, a little bit apple bread. All made into a muffin!
And I really think it’s the apple that keeps them so moist! Thanks for reading 🙂
This recipe sounds wonderful 😊😊😊
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks so much for reading!
I love that I can add fruits or veggies that I like and still enjoy it. Also I can def. pack some to bring and eat at work 🙂
I haven’t even heard of these muffins before but now I need to make them! These sound delicious and I love that they are refined sugar free and full of substance.
I really love these, every single ingredient. Another must try! Thanks for sharing,
These sound easy and delicious! Always looking for quick healthy quick breakfast bites. Thanks for sharing!
I love the history bit of this recipe:) And the fact that they are packed with healthy ingredients. Perfect for coffee:))
I’m always on the lookout for healthy, on the go breakfast options. These will be perfect!
Oh, wow! What a nostalgic recipe! My mom used to make morning glory muffins all the time when I was growing up and I loved them. Since finding out about my allergy to apples, I haven’t had these – but I’m thinking that if I made them for myself, I could swap apples for pears and get a similar treat. Thank you for reminding me about this yummy baked good!
I’ve never used cinnamon in muffins before but this sounds like it would be amazing! Thanks for sharing this recipe I’ll have to give it a try! X
I’ve never used cinnamon in muffins before but this sounds like it would be amazing! Thanks for sharing this recipe I’ll have to give it a try! X
I’ve never heard of these type of muffins and I’d love to try them out! Thank you so much for sharing!
These muffins look scrumtch! I am using more and more coconut oil these days and love it! I can just tastes these muffins!
These look so delicious! I absolutely love muffins but always struggle to get a good texture & lift from my gluten-free recipes. I can’t wait to try these!
These sound so good! My sister is gluten free so I will have to make some for her as she can’t eat most of my recipes. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Looks yummy and simple to make! My dad would love it so much. Thanks for sharing x
Yumyum! Defo pinning these to my gluten-free recipe board on Pinterest – thanks! Helen 😋
I can’t admit enough that it’s such a wonderful recipe. Great ingredient combination although I’ll never add zucchini for dessert. Liked the cinnamon addition with apple. Nuts coconut also among my fav flavours. Dont doubt the texture and the end taste. Will try this. Xx
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I can’t admit enough that it’s such a wonderful recipe. Great ingredient combination although I’ll never add zucchini for dessert. Liked the cinnamon addition with apple. Nuts coconut also among my fav flavours. Dont doubt the texture and the end taste. Will try this. Xx
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These Morning Glory muffins have all the right ingredients. Made even better by the fact it’s gluten free!
I love morning glory muffins! These sound so good! I usually use 1/4 cup of applesauce in place of an egg in my baking, but have never tried it with gluten free flour. Do you think it would work out as well as regular flour?
Looks yummy. Is the coconut oil an essential or could I sub something else for it?
What a great idea adding shredded fruits and nuts to the muffins, so brilliant! So delicious!
These sound amazing and look so light too. I love the idea of muffins for breakfast… anytime really. I’m going to make some this afternoon.
These sound so yummy! Lots of great texture and flavor to start the day!
Looks good! I love muffins in the morning!
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