Carrot, Orange and Poppy Seed Muffins.

This summer Gran, Gramps, Fiona, the king carnivore, and I went for a trip to the middle of nowhere Iowa. For what? Well, a produce auction, a cheese factory, a commune, and an Amish store. On our great adventure I bought melons, cheese, citric acid and poppy seeds.

(Yes, I understand how absolutely random that entire last paragraph is.)

Moving on - today I noticed some rather sad looking carrots wanting to be eaten and a lonely orange begging for attention. Put them all together with the poppy seeds and the above was born. Carrot, Orange, and poppy seed muffins.

Get all your ingredients together:

You are going to need:

Muffins:

2 carrots

1 orange

1 egg - beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 pinches salt

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 cup sour cream

3/4 brown sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

4 tablespoons poppy seeds

1 cup flour

Glaze:

3 heaping tablespoons of powdered sugar

rest of the juice and pulp from orange.

Skin and slice carrots put in a skillet with water and simmer until the water is gone and carrots are tender.

Turn off heat, add butter to skillet so it melts.

Put carrot butter mixture in blender with the juice of one orange (use your hands to squeeze out the orange - don't go crazy because you'll want some juice for the glaze), 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, 2 pinches of salt, 1/2 cup of sour cream and blend it all up.

Don't you love the color? (and my little helper?)

Add the egg, sugar, and vanilla. Then stir in the drugs. (For those that don't get the reference...poppy seeds will make you fail a drug test.)

Stir your flour and baking powder together and add it to the mixture to get this:

Fill muffin pan 3/4 full and bake at 350 for about 15 minutes (until tooth pick comes out clean.) The king carnivore likes to say that looking aint cooking. I would heed his advice on this as they might "fall" in the center if you open the oven door too many times. Ok, I did it like 4 times and they didn't fall, but I was playing with fire by doing that. I made mini muffins because I knew I wouldn't be able to resist opening the door and they would be less likely to get messed up.

While those are in the oven make your glaze by mixing the rest of the juice and pulp from the orange into the powdered sugar:

Glaze em and eat em. Yum.

Cheers and Happy Eats!

Lucinda