Veggie Bran Muffins

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup lite olive oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups sugar or 1 1/2 cups splenda granular
• 3 eggs (or egg substitute)
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 cup natural bran
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 5 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 cup carrot, shredded
• 1 cup apple, shredded
• 1 cup zucchini, shredded
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1/2 cup raisins (optional) or 1/2 cup craisins (optional)
• 1/2 cup nuts (optional)
• 1 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Recipe

• 1 combine oil,vanilla sugar. mix in eggs.
• 2 add flour,baking soda ,baking powder, cocoa.
• 3 mix well & add carrots, apples, zucchini and any optionals.
• 4 adding 1/2 cup apple sauce makes it very moist.
• 5 mixture will be thick and not batter like. this is normal. they do not rise much so fill the muffin cups about to level of the top.
• 6 place in muffin pans with papers or spray silicone pans.
• 7 bake 28 minutes at 350 degrees.
• 8 tasty dense moist muffin. i used splenda and egg substitute to reduce calories so i can justify the chocolate chips.
• 9 they freeze well and can be defrosted in micowave individually.
• 10 optional substitute for spice muffin 2 tsp cinnamon & 1 tsp nutmeg for cocoa powder.