Thursday, November 10, 2011

Best Ever Carrot Muffins

No surprise but I was experimenting in my kitchen the other day on a Carrot Cake recipe by Betty Crocker---I have the nice Betty Crocker Red Cook Book

I no longer cook with white flour nor do I cook with store bought wheat flour. The only flours that I cook with now are ground by myself----wheat, oat.....

When my husband or I get a craving for a baked good it becomes challenging to make the baked good as moist and fluffy as it normally would be in the store. But these Carrot Muffins were so delish!!!

These muffins actually were from a carrot cake recipe with a lot of changes to the ingredients to make them healthier. 


Original Recipe                                                                My Substitute Recipe                   
1 1/2 c sugar                                                                      1c honey
1c cooking oil                                                                    3/4c coconut oil 
3 eggs                                                                               same
2c white flour                                                                    1 1/2c wheat flour and 1/2c oat flour    
2 teaspoons cinnamon                                                       3 teaspoons cinnamon
                                                                                         1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
                                                                                         1/2 teaspoon clove
1 teaspoon baking soda                                                     same
1 teaspoon vanilla                                                              same
1/2  teaspoon                                                                    same
3c shredded carrots                                                          4c shredded carrots
1c coarsely ground nuts                                                     1c sliced apples

Preheat oven to 350 degree. Mix all ingredients. Place mix in muffins pan. Bake for 40-45 min. or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool muffins in pans for 10 min and than take out of pans to cont to cool




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