Fuel to Go Muffins
I have been making my Fuel to Go Muffins for over 20 years and they are still my number 1 favourite muffin! Loaded with a ton of super healthy ingredients!
These Fuel to Go Muffins really live up to their name, they are seriously LOADED with carrots, fruits, seeds and whole wheat flour. Try them once and you will have everyone begging you to make more.
These muffins were a huge hit with my son’s Track and Field teammates. They are perfect for breakfast or to refuel with during the day. A great snack for athletes! So whether you are hiking a mountain, spending the day snowboarding, or running a marathon, be sure to pack some of these super delicious muffins.
Another nutritionally dense recipe my son loved while he was training was homemade Fuel to Go Bars.
My son is allergic to nuts, so I add protein content with hemp seed and chia seeds. I use multigrain flour as it adds great taste and a nice crunch to the muffins, but if you can’t find multigrain flour, whole wheat flour will work. Fuel to Go Muffins are a healthy breakfast muffin or after school snack. In our house we call them “Athlete Fuel”. This nutrient dense muffin tastes amazing and fills you up. One of my All Time Favourite Recipes!
Fuel to Go muffins smell incredible baking in the oven. I love eating them warm, but they also freeze very well.
Healthy Ingredients for Making these Muffins
These muffins are made using pumpkin, sunflower, chia and hemp seeds and a dried fruit mixture of cranberries, blueberries and raisins. Adding to the incredible, wholesome flavour is fresh grated carrots, apples and pineapple.
A ton of heathy ingredients all measured out ready to bake, just like on the TV Cooking Shows. This makes it easy to whip up the batter for these muffins. Now if only someone would do this for me, and wash the dishes after!
Steps for making these healthy muffins
Mix together flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Add the crushed pineapple, carrots, and apple.
Add the seeds, dried fruit, and coconut. Blend everything together until well combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, vanilla and oil
Add the egg mixture to the batter and combine until dry ingredients are coated. This batter will be very thick.
Scoop the batter heaping full into paper lined muffin pan.
Bake at 350ºF for 30-35 minutes. Top should look golden brown and crisp.
More Muffin recipes
Homemade muffins are great for breakfast on the go or anytime snacks. These are some of my family’s favourites.
Fuel to Go Muffins
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Ingredients
- 2 cups multi grain flour or whole wheat flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup raisins, dried cranberries, dried blueberries dried fruit to equal 1 1/2 – 2 cups
- 2 cups grated carrots medium grate (not fine)
- 1 apple shredded medium grate (not fine)
- 8 ounce can crushed pineapple drained really well to remove most of the liquid
- 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
- ¼ cup chia seeds
- ¼ cup hemp seeds
- 3 eggs
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil can also use olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Mix together flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
- Add the dried fruit, coconut, seeds, raisins, crushed pineapple, apple and carrots. Stir to combine.
- In a separate bowl whisk the eggs with the oil and vanilla.
- Combine the egg mixture with the dry ingredients and blend well. This batter will be very thick.
- Line muffin tin with paper baking cups.
- Scoop the batter heaping full into the baking cups, dividing equally.
- Bake at 350º F for 30-35 minutes. The tops should be golden brown and crispy looking.
Notes
Nutrition
Do you think I could substitute flax seeds for the hemp seeds?
Absolutely Jennifer, they make a great substitution
I made these as part of a lunch for a group of trail builders. The first person who munched into one declared them “the best muffins he’d even had”! They were ALL gone within minutes. I am definitely adding these to my “must bake” list!
They don’t last long in my house either! So glad everyone enjoyed them Hilary.
Would love to know the calorie count on these muffins.
Hi Barb, I actually don’t have a program that does calorie counts
I have made these three times now! I use less sunflower seeds and add flaxseeds and then I use one cup carrots and one cup zucchini! So yummy- thank you for sharing with all of us! I love these muffins- have you ever tried to leave out the sugar or substitute a different sweetener???
Jessie
These muffins are great with so many different kind of substitutions. I have not used any sugar substitutions but if you look through other comments some others have tried with this recipe. So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Hi! I haven’t tried it with this recipe yet but I use coconut sugar in all my muffins as a substitute for refined sugar and it has always worked out great 🙂
Love to hear back if you try the recipe with Coconut sugar Emily
I love these. I live on these. Email me if you want the nutritional information on these muffins. I worked hard to figure it out so I would love to share it so other people can use it too.
As a teaser: Each muffin only has 39 calories in it!
Cheers!
Please send nutritional info. I appreciate the work to research this. Thank you so much
Anne
Added nutritional info
I don’t see the nutritional info anywhere on the page. Am I blind? LOL.
Hi Tracy, I had them posted, but then realized they weren’t calculated correctly. I will work on redoing and reposting soon.
Please send the nutritional information to me. Thank you for taking the time to figure it all out.
its under the recipe
I still don’t see the nutritional info 🙁
Where can you get multigrain flour? I used to use it all the time to bake bread but lately haven’t been able to find it. I am from US and look for it when I am visiting in Canada. I also would like to see your nutrition information on these muffins – they look and sound amazing.
Hi Colleen, it does seem hard to find lately, but whole wheat flour works great in this recipe as well.
I have multigrain hot cereal that we use in place of oatmeal once in a while so I ground it up in my Ninja and used 1 cup of it as it is much denser than bought multigrain flour and then I used 1 cup of white flour. Would have used whole wheat flour or sproughted grain flou but I didn’t have any.
A girlfriend of mine comes over once a week to do a little baking. With the new year here, we’ve been searching for some lighter options. We came across your recipe and tested it out. We love these muffins! We decided to go all-out healthy and try it with fair trade coconut sugar (cheap at any bulk foods store) and they still turned out great. They were a tiny dry, maybe we’ll add a banana to the mix next time. With all those goodies crammed in there, we don’t even miss the butters and candies! ????
Thank you Katelyn, coconut sugar is a great substitution. These are a hardy muffin that will keep you going all day.
Made these muffins this morning! They taste amazing. I too had 24 muffins as an end result this may be caused by the size of muffin tin and how heaping you fill the tins. This will be a go to for my family too. Next batch I will cut sugar in half. Will let you know how they turn out. Thank you
Can you sub fresh fruit (cranberries, blueberries etc.) for the dried?
Hi Jo Ann, I am pretty sure fresh fruit would not work as it would make the muffins too mushy, but I have not tried it myself.
I just made a double batch of these, didn’t have two apple so used zucchini and Cloud 9 GF flour, got it at Costco and a multi grain and no nasty taste like bean fours. Got 48 good size muffins, I like to have muffins on hand for when I have go shopping so will always have GF food for a coffee / tea break. I also added some protein powder with the flour. Fresh out of the oven and had to taste. YUMMY. My hubby just had one and didn’t know they were GF, he said wow these are good, I haven’t told him yet they are GF????????????
Thank you Reva, some great adaptations you made. These are my family’s all time favourite muffins!
Superb! Amazing how these hold together so well. I did some substitutions:
– mix of fresh orange, banana, pear, mandarin in place of the drained pineapple
– raisins and dried apricots instead of sugar, cup for cup – food-processed them with the fresh fruit
– flax egg instead of egg
– my flour was a mix of coconut flour, potato flour and tapioca starch
Thanks so much for this recipe!
Some great substitutions Lee!