Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins

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Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins

Healthy carrot cake muffins with raisins, walnuts, applesauce, maple syrup, and warming spices, and topped with greek yogurt frosting! They are easy to make, lightly sweetened, perfectly moist, and so delicious! Enjoy them for breakfast, a healthy snack, or an option for meal prep.

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword carrot cake muffins, gluten free carrot cake muffins, healthy carrot cake muffins

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Cool Time 15

Total Time 50

Servings muffins

Calories 163kcal

Author Kelly Nardo

Equipment

2 mixing bowls
muffin tin
muffin liners

Ingredients

1 cup 1:1 gluten-free flour (148 grams)
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 large egg
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons milk
1/4 cup maple syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 heaping cup finely shredded carrots (110 grams)
1/4 cup raisins (40 grams) - optional
1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped (45 grams) - optional
1/2 batch greek yogurt frosting (optional for frosting)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a muffin tin with 9 nonstick paper muffin liners, reusable silicone liners, or grease the muffin wells.
Mix your dry ingredients. Add your flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, and salt to a medium bowl and whisk to combine.
Mix your wet ingredients. In a separate medium-large bowl, add your applesauce, egg, milk, maple syrup, and vanilla extract and mix well to combine. Add carrots and stir to combine.
Combine batter. Add your dry mixture, raisins, and walnuts to your wet mixture and mix with a spatula until just combined. Do not overmix the batter.
Bake. Using a cookie scoop (about 2 1/2 tablespoons), distribute the muffin batter evenly among the prepared muffin cups. Bake for 25-30 minutes. You can check doneness by inserting a toothpick in the center. It should come out clean with a few moist crumbs. Let cool.
Optional - while the muffins bake, make your frosting. Place in the fridge to let the frosting chill until the carrot cake muffins are cool.
Ice muffins. Once the muffins are cooled, add about a heaping tablespoon of frosting to each muffin and evenly spread it out. I like to sprinkle a little cinnamon on top.
Enjoy!

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