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Carrot Cake Muffins

Jane Houston
RSF | VG
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Course 3 meals a day, lunchbox, Snack, vegetarian
Servings 12 muffins

Ingredients
  

  • 1 3/4 cup carrot - finely grated
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
  • 1/2 cup avocado oil
  • 1 cup tinned pineapple
  • 3/4 cup honey or maple syrup
  • 1 3/4 cup white spelt flour
  • 1/2 cup desiccated coconut 
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bi carb soda
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 pinch salt

Cream Cheese + Yogurt Frosting

  • 250 grams cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1/2 tsp lemon rind
  • 2 tbsp honey or maple syrup
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Topping (optional)

  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Instructions
 

  • Remove cream cheese from the fridge to soften
  • Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line a muffin tray with muffin papers
  • Finely grate the carrots and set aside
  • Take out a bowl for the wet ingredients and crack in the eggs, whisking well. Add in the yoghurt, avocado oil, honey or maple syrup and vanilla essence and mix gently to combine
  • Take out another bowl for the dry ingredients. Sift in the spelt flour, baking powder, bi carb soda and cinnamon. Add in the salt and dessicated coconut and mix gently
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and add in the grated carrot and pineapple too. Mix until combined
  • Spoon the batter into the muffin tray and place into the oven to bake for roughly 20 minutes until golden on top. Insert a skewer into a muffin and if it comes out clean, the muffins are ready
  • Set the muffins aside to cool and in the meantime prepare the frosting
  • Add the softened cream cheese, yoghurt, lemon juice, lemon rind, honey or maple syrup and cinnamon to a bowl and mix with electric beaters until smooth
  • Once the muffins have cooked completely, top with the frosting and sprinkle with the roughly chopped walnuts

Notes

* This can also be baked into a cake too. It will need to be baked for roughly 40 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean when inserted within
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