Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake/muffins. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot Cake/Muffins is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake/Muffins is something that I have loved my entire life.
I love Muffins for Breakfast too. You could leave the frosting off a few of these Carrot Cake Muffins to serve for Breakfast and frost some for an easy delicious dessert. If you prefer you could make a loaf instead of muffins or even a small cake.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake/muffins using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake/Muffins:
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Get 250 ml castor sugar
- Take 250 ml cooking oil
- Get 500 ml Snowflake Cake Wheat Flour
- Make ready 10 ml Snowflake Baking Powder
- Take 3 ml bicarbonate of soda
- Make ready 3 ml salt
- Take 5 ml ground cinnamon
- Prepare 3 ml ground ginger
- Take 3 ml ground cloves
- Get 500 ml ( coarsely grated carrots
- Get 125 ml pecan nuts, coarsely chopped (optional)
- Take For the icing
- Take 100 g butter or margarine, softened
- Get 125 g plain cream cheese
- Prepare 500 ml (250 g) icing sugar, sifted
- Prepare 10 ml fresh lemon juice
I absolutely love carrot cake, so it's no surprise I like to make more desserts with carrots and warm spices. These muffins are incredibly moist and fluffy, they're perfectly spiced with a little cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves, and they are stuffed full of grated carrots. Carrot Cake Muffins-the great flavor of Carrot Cake in a muffin! My kids are't big on cooked carrots.
Steps to make Carrot Cake/Muffins:
- Beat eggs and castor sugar together until light and creamy. Add oil and beat well.
- Sift flour, baking powder, bicarb, salt and spices together. Add to creamed mixture and mix well.
- Fold in grated carrots and nuts. Spoon mixture into a greased 23cm loose-bottom round cake pan or two greased 20cm round cake pans. A muffin tray may also be used for variety.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 40 mins. Leave in the pan for a few mins before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Icing: Combine all ingredients and mix until smooth. Spread icing onto cake.
I try to sneak them in when I do something with mixed vegetables. And I love them in a pot roast. Carrot Cake Muffins have all the flavors of carrot cake that you love, but in muffin size. Sweet, ultra-moist, with a hint of cinnamon and perfectly fluffy texture. Great for breakfast, snack time, or grab-and-go meals on the fly!
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