Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins

5 from 7 votes

Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins

Wholesome treat that will make you feel good! These healthy carrot cake muffins are made with natural nutritious ingredients. They are tender and fluffy, not overly sweet and extremely easy to make. Do try!

Prep Time20

Cook Time23

Servings: muffins

Author: Bea & Marco

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

2 cup whole grain spelt flour (260 g)
2 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder

Wet Ingredients

½ cup full fat milk (125 ml), room temperature
½ tablespoon lemon juice
2 large eggs , room temperature
⅓ cup coconut oil (80 ml)
½ cup honey (160 g)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ cup grated carrot (165 g)
½ cup grated apple (80 g)
½ cup walnuts (60 g), chopped

Frosting

6 oz cream cheese (170 g), room temperature
2 tablespoon honey (40 g), or to your liking

Instructions

Dry Ingredients

Add all ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Set aside.

Wet Ingredients

Add milk and lemon juice into another bowl and leave for 10 minutes. Then add in eggs, oil, honey and vanilla extract. Mix well using a hand whisk.
Now add in dry ingredients and mix everything together, but do not over mix it. Finally add in carrot, apple and walnut. Give it one last mix. Scoop batter evenly into lined muffin pans. This recipe yields 16 muffins.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350ºF(175ºC) at lower ⅔ rack, no fan-forced, with top and bottom heat, for 23 minutes or until you insert a skewer into a muffin and it comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool completely.

The Frosting

Add cream cheese into a bowl and mix until it gets creamy, using a spatula. Now add in 2-3 tablespoon of honey (or your favourite sweetener) until you get your desired sweetness.
Spoon onto the muffins and finally sprinkle some chopped walnuts on top. Serve and enjoy!

Notes

Use spoon and level method when measuring the flour (for cup measurement)
Use portable oven thermometer (like this one) for a more precise temperature reading (I use it too)
Refer to my post above for tips

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