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Who else is ready for spring? I totally am!
One of the things I love about spring time and the Easter season is carrot cake!
Carrot cake is one of my all favorites of all the cakes. However the carrot cake I grew up with wasn't healthy in the slightest despite 'carrot' being in the title.
I've come up with a delicious yet healthy recipe that you can enjoy for breakfast, as a traveling snack, or even dessert.
Plus you can add in the optional ingredients making our carrot cake muffins always interesting.
**This recipe below is correct, I said the wrong amount of whole wheat flour in the video**
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Easy Carrot Cake Muffins
[Makes 12 Muffins]
Ingredients
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup oat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ginger
1/8 tsp clove
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 flax eggs (2 tbsp flax meal mixed with 6 tbsp water - mix together and set aside]
1 cup date paste
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup shredded carrots
Optional:
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup walnuts chopped
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
Directions:
+Preheat oven to 375 degrees
+Whisk together the dry ingredients
+Add in flax eggs, date paste, and vanilla extract. Mix till well combined
+Fold in shredded carrots to mixture and any optional ingredients
+Bake for 15 minutes - let muffins cool completely before removing from pan.
Interested in the baking muffin pans we used in our video, get them here:
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I hope you'll give this recipe a try, and let us know if you liked it!
We love seeing photographs of our recipes and just in general hearing from you guys!
When does the apple sauce go in?
Super yummy! Used buckwheat instead of whole wheat to make it gluten-free. Also definitely ate all of our dates before getting around to this recipe (oops!) but it was still very tasty. Would definitely recommend the raisins though if you don’t have the date paste. Thanks for the yummy muffin recipe.
Hey there! Do you know what flour I could use successfully instead of the wholewheat flour to do a gluten free version here? Thank you!
Greetings! Brittney, I didn't find the link to your date paste video instructions. I searched on your website and couldn't find it. Could you possibly link it for me please? Thank you!
id like to add some pineapple. Do you think it should replace some of the applesauce or just add it in separately? Thank you!