Vegan and Gluten Free Carrot and Zucchini Muffins

My son is almost 2 years old and goes to daycare full time. The daycare is very good about feeding my son separately from other kids and watching him so he doesn't eat anything he is not suppose to. My heart breaks thinking that all the kids eat together and my baby has to sit by himself at a separate table. At least once a week I try to send in a snack for the whole class so my son can sit with everyone else. This week I made carrot and zucchini muffins for the whole class to eat. I adopted a regular carrot cake recipe for this, substituted half of the carrots in the recipe with shredded zucchini and veganized the rest of the ingredients. The muffins came out extremely moist, fluffy and all the kids were happy with them. When I came to pick up my son there was only one muffin left and my older son just scooped it up and stuffed as fast as he could into his mouth.

Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose GF flour
1 teaspoon xanthan gum (if GF flour doesn't include it)
3/4 cup of mix of multigrain flours (I used 1/4 sourghum, 1/4 millet and 1/4 quinoa flakes)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons of honey
3 tablespoons ground flax seed + 9 tablespoons of water ( this is to substitute eggs)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup shredded zucchini
1 cup shredded carrots

1. Heat oven to 350F and brush muffin pan with oil
2. Mix flax seed with water and set aside
3. Whisk flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt
4. Whisk oil, sugar, honey, flax seed mixture and vanilla until smooth
5. Stir in zucchini and carrots
6. Fold in flour with rubber spatula and mix until batter is just combined. Don't over mix.
7. Spoon the mixture into the muffin pan
8. Bake for 20-30 minutes until the center of each muffin is firm to touch.

Please note that flax seed can be easilly substituted with apple sauce of pureed banana.