Flaxseed Wheat Bran Muffins

INGREDIENTS
1 C.flaxseed ground
1 C whole wheat flour
1 C. Oat Bran
1 C. Brown sugar
2 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp. Cinnamon
1 1/2 C. shredded Carrots
2-3 Apples, cored and chopped up or shredded
1/2 C. Chopped nuts (optional)
1/2 c. Raisins (optional)
3/4 C. 2 % milk
2 Eggs, beaten
1 tsp. Vanilla

DIRECTIONS
Mix flour, flaxseed, bran, sugar and dry ingredients together. Shred carrots and apples and add these along with optional raisins and nuts to dry ingredients. Mix well. Stir together milk eggs and vanilla and stir this into batter until well moistened. Fill cupcake papers until 3.4 full and bake at 350* for 20 to 25 minutes.

Updated Review:
Made these this morning. Other than the bruise on my hand from having to chop so much stuff with my PC chopper, and having to keep fetching more carrots and apples because my little helper kept eating them all, not too hard to throw together. Neither my mom nor I could find the oat bran at the store, so I crunched up some Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal (yum!) and threw it in there.

These taste yummy, and my kids even ate them. HOWEVER, they are not big fluffy muffins like you'd see at Starbucks or somewhere--they don't rise at all (so you really don't need to stick to that 3/4 full thing), and they are pretty dark brown. So, more utilitarian than decorative.