Zucchini Carrot Apple Bread (aka "Mama Bread")

My son just loves bread so I wanted to create some muffins that would be really healthy for him (and sneak in some veggies while I'm at it). Brady loved these muffins! No refined sugar and lots of healthy, organic ingredients. They are so moist , so delicious & so healthy! My husband said the name is too long so he shortened it to "Mama Bread". We have a definite keeper on our hands with this one.

MAMA BREAD
- 1 cup all purpose organic flour

- 2 cups organic whole wheat flour

- 1 tsp salt

- 1 tsp baking soda

- 1 tsp baking powder

- 2 1/2 tsp cinnamon

- 1/4 tsp nutmeg

- 2 tsp vanilla

- 2 eggs, beaten

- 1/4 cup vegetable oil

- 1 cup organic applesauce

- 1 cup organic yogurt (plain / full fat)

- 1 cup honey

- 1 cup shredded organic carrots

- 1 cup shredded zucchini (with skin)

* Mix all dry ingredients together. In a separate bowl, mix together vanilla, eggs, vegetable oil, applesauce, yogurt and honey. Slowly mix wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Fold in the carrots and zucchini. Pour into greased (I just use some olive oil) muffin tins. Put tins into a preheated oven at 425 degrees. When you put the muffins in the oven, immediately turn the temperature down to 400 degrees and bake for 15-20 minutes (or until a knife comes out clean). I found putting them in an extra hot oven creates a nice, big dome top on the muffin. This recipe made 20 muffins.

* Brady's Rating: 5 stars (out of 5)
* Mommy's Rating: 4 stars
* Suggestions for next time: I'll try adding in a few tablespoons of flax meal (finely ground flax seed) next time. We found these plenty sweet using honey. If you like them sweeter, you could always add in 1/4 cup of brown sugar.