Tender Morning Glory Bread (Vegan)

An overhead shot shows a sliced morning glory bread on a parchment-lined cutting board. Orange slices are seen nearby.

Rise and shine with this hearty morning glory bread recipe! Excellent as a breakfast bread or as a day deal with with a scorching cup of tea. This vegan loaf cake is loaded up with healthful components like entire wheat flour, grated carrot and apple, raisins, walnuts, floor flax seed, maple syrup, orange juice, and shredded coconut. Much like my vegan carrot muffins, each chew is moist, tender, simply candy sufficient, and further flavorful with heat hints of cinnamon and vanilla. When you grate your carrot and apple, combine your moist and dry components collectively, after which bake within the oven, you’re good to go!

An up close, overhead shot shows a slice of morning glory bread, studded with raisins, shredded carrot and apple, coconut, and chopped walnuts.

An overhead shot shows ingredients needed for a morning glory bread recipe: all-purpose flour, orange, walnuts, coconut, sunflower oil, cinnamon, salt, baking powder, baking soda, whole wheat flour, ground flax, soy milk, raisins, carrot, apple, and maple syrup.

An overhead shot shows a bowl with grated carrots and apple, a small bowl with orange zest, a small bowl with orange juice, a squeezes orange half, and some chopped walnuts in a bowl.

An overhead shot shows a mixing bowl filled with grated carrots and apple, soy milk, oil, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and orange juice.

A head-on shot shows a bowl filled with dry ingredients like flour, cinnamon, walnuts, raisins, and coconut.

My curiosity over creating a morning glory fast bread began over a 12 months in the past! A reader emailed me for recommendation on taking my carrot muffin recipe and turning that right into a morning glory loaf. I had just a few solutions and despatched them their manner. They reported again on their progress and I stored interested by testing a devoted recipe for the weblog. I’m so happy with the outcomes that took root in that preliminary dialog!

This recipe is impressed by the legendary muffin invented by Pam McKinstry whereas working The Morning Glory Cafe in Nantucket within the 70’s. Whereas the unique recipe contained 100% all-purpose flour, cane sugar, and pecans (I take advantage of a portion of entire wheat flour, maple syrup and walnuts), the flavour profile with this loaf is fairly devoted. You possibly can learn extra about Chef McKinstry and the historical past right here!

My favourite muffins and loaves veer in the direction of the healthful facet. Vegan zucchini bread, spelt banana bread, something with bran, entire grains, or hidden fruits/greens. This morning glory fast bread has all of it. Grated carrots and apples, entire wheat and all-purpose flour, and a ship load of crunchy and candy add-ins like raisins, walnuts, and coconut. A slice of that is fairly filling! I ruined my lunch a pair occasions after I was testing this one hehe.

Some suggestions for making this morning glory loaf:

I want soy milk in my baking as a result of it typically performs equally to dairy milk. Having mentioned that, I’m about 90% assured that different various milks would work high-quality right here.
I’ve made this loaf with avocado oil instead of the sunflower and it was nice! I simply want the extremely impartial style of sunflower oil for a loaf cake like this.
You possibly can change up the add-ins if you’d like (totally different chopped nuts/seeds/dried fruit). You’ll want a scant cup whole. I might keep away from doing all dried fruit although–it can make the loaf too moist and crumbly.
Working with the included gram quantities would be the most correct and can yield the perfect outcomes. If you happen to’re utilizing cups, I like to recommend the spoon and stage measuring methodology for the flour. Additionally for these utilizing cups: don’t “pack” the grated carrots, apples, or raisins.

This breakfast bread is of course egg-free! Changing eggs is all the time my first concern when engaged on fast breads. There’s a number of moist components within the basic morning glory combination, so I wasn’t too eager to go in with apple sauce or something like that. Working with the ratio of flours to soy milk and including a touch extra leavening from baking powder does the trick!

Hope you’re keen on this one! It truly is a particular deal with.

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An overhead shot shows a whole wheat flour mixture added to a liquid mixture with carrots in a mixing bowl. A hand is holding a spatula in the bowl, ready to stir everything together.