Carrot Cake Muffins

  • Clock Icon Prep 30 mins Cooking 30 mins
  • Dinner Icon Serves 12

Moreish mini carrot cakes topped with delectable cream cheese icing.

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Ingredients

  • 300g chopped carrot
  • 80g chopped butter
  • ¾ cup orange juice
  • 2 eggs at room temperature
  • 2 cups The Healthy Baker Self Raising Flour
  • ¾ cup caster sugar
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 55g chia seeds
  • 165g chopped fresh pineapple (or canned)
  • 60g chopped pecans

For the cream cheese icing:

  • 100g spreadable cream cheese at room temperature
  • ¼ cup maple syrup
  • ¼ cup icing sugar

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 190°C /170°C fan-forced. Line 12-hole x ½ cup (125ml) muffin tray holes with muffin paper cases.

2

Place carrot into mixing bowl and grate 5 sec/speed 6. Set aside.

3

Place butter into mixing bowl and melt 3 min/60°C/speed 2. Cool slightly.

4

Add orange juice, eggs, cloves nutmeg, flour, sugar and eggs and mix 5 sec/speed 4.

5

Scrape down side of bowl. Fold in grated carrot, pineapple, chia seeds and pecans 10-20 secs/reverse/speed 3 or until evenly combined.

6

Evenly spoon mixture into paper cases. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden and cooked when tested with a skewer.

7

Cool for 5 minutes in the tin and turn out onto a wire rack.

8

Beat together the cream cheese, maple syrup and icing sugar. Insert butterfly.

9

Place cream cheese, maple syrup and icing sugar into the mixing bowl. Insert butterfly.

10

Beat 1 min/speed 4. Serve with the muffins.

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