Best Carrot Cake Muffins Recipes

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
• Beat milk, eggs, applesauce, and vanilla extract together in a bowl. Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt together in another bowl. Stir carrots into flour mixture; fold in milk mixture and butter until batter is just combined. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

HEALTHY CARROT CAKE MUFFINS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
• In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until light and fluffy.
• Add in the Greek yogurt and whisk again until the mixture is smooth and fluffy.
• Pour in the maple syrup, milk, and vanilla extract. Beat the mixture again until smooth.
• Add the shredded carrots, whole wheat flour, baking powder, and cinnamon over the wet ingredients. Using a rubber spatula, fold the wet and dry ingredients together just until combined.
• Using a medium ice cream scoop, portion the batter into a greased 12-cup muffin tin.
• Bake for 20 minutes, until the muffins have risen and set.
• For the frosting, beat the cream cheese in a small bowl until smooth.
• Add in the maple syrup and vanilla and beat again until the mixture is well combined.
• Once the muffins have cooled, use a small ice cream scoop to spoon a bit of the frosting on top of the muffins. Gently tap the muffins on the counter to smooth out the layer of frosting on top.
• Enjoy!

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS WITH CINNAMON GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 2 muffin pans, or use paper liners.
• In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, allspice and salt. Mix in brown sugar, white sugar and coconut. In a separate bowl, combine eggs, oil, 1/2 cup buttermilk, carrots, pineapple, and vanilla. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and add the egg/buttermilk mixture. Mix until batter is moistened. Fill muffin cups 3/4 full.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the tops spring back when lightly tapped. Allow to cool.
• In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 2 to 3 tablespoons buttermilk. Mix until smooth, then refrigerate until thickened. Drizzle over cooled muffins.

CARROT CAKE MIX MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• In large mixing bowl place cake mix, eggs, oil and 1 tablespoon reserved pineapple juice, stir well to combine, add drained crushed pineapple and pecans, stir to blend. Batter will be thick and smooth, if it's too stiff, add a little bit more pineapple juice.
• Place paper muffin liners in muffin tin, divide batter equally between muffin liners.
• Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, test with a toothpick for doneness.
• Cool on wire rack.

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• 1) Preheat the oven to 400°F Lightly grease a standard 12-well muffin pan. Or line the pan with paper muffin cups, and grease the cups.
• 2) To make the filling: Place the cream cheese in a microwave-safe bowl, and heat on low power for 40 seconds. Stir in the sugar and flavor. Set aside.
• 3) To make the muffin batter: In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.
• 4) In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, water, and oil.
• 5) Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
• 6) Fold in the grated carrots, stirring to combine.
• 7) Drop about 2 tablespoons of the batter (a tablespoon cookie scoop works well here) into each muffin cup, spreading it to cover the bottom.
• 8) Dollop on a heaping tablespoon of filling; a level tablespoon cookie scoop works well here.
• 9) Cover with enough batter to fill the muffin cups quite full. The batter will come to within about 1/4" to 3/8" of the top of each muffin cup. But don't try to use all the batter; unless you have particularly deep cups, you'll have.
• 9) Cover with enough batter to fill the muffin cups quite full. The batter will come to within about 1/4" to 3/8" of the top of each muffin cup. But don't try to use all the batter; unless you have particularly deep cups, you'll have abut 1/3 cup batter left over. Bake it in a separate custard cup, if desired.
• 10) Bake the muffins until a toothpick inserted into the cake part of one (not into the cream cheese filling) comes out clean, about 20 minutes. The tops of the muffins will feel firm to the touch.
• 11) Remove the muffins from the oven, and as soon as you're able to handle them, transfer them to a rack. If you serve the muffins warm, the filling will be molten. If you wait for them to cool, it'll firm up.

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees with the rack in the upper third of the space. Oil or butter muffin tins.
• Sift together the whole-wheat pastry flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and salt.
• In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs, sugar, oil, buttermilk and vanilla. Using a whisk or a spatula, stir in the dry ingredients and mix until well combined. Do not beat; a few lumps are fine, but make sure there is no flour at the bottom of the bowl. Fold in the raisins or pecans and the carrots.
• Spoon into muffin cups, filling them to just below the top (about 4/5 full). Place in the oven, and bake 25 minutes until lightly browned and well risen.

TOO EASY PUMPKIN CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat ingredients together on low until just combined. Increase to medium speed and beat for two minutes more.
• Pour into 24 paper lined muffin cups. Bake 18 minutes.
• ***Can be frosted with premade cream cheese frosting with a dash of pumpkin pie spice mixed in and topped with chopped walnuts.
• ***Can substitute spice cake mix for the carrot cake mix.

DELICIOUS DIABETIC CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• NOTE: When substituting real brown sugar for the Splenda, use 1/2 cup, as the Splenda is double strength.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
• Beat together the egg and brown sugar. Stir in the butter, sour cream, pureed carrots, pineapple, and vanilla.
• Add the dry ingredients and stir just until blended.
• Fold in the nuts and coconut.
• Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full. Bake 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool in pan for 15 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

MOIST CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl.
• Mix cereal and milk in another bowl, let stand for 3 minutes.
• Mix in carrots, sugar, egg and oil.
• Add to flour mixture until moist (Batter will be lumpy).
• Stir in raisins.
• Grease muffin pan and spoon batter into muffin pan filling each cup to 2/3 full.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
• Serve warm.
• STORAGE: Cool leftover muffins and wrap each tightly with plastic wrap and freeze.

VEGAN CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line muffin cups with paper liners.
• Whisk almond milk and vinegar together in a small bowl; set aside until curdled, about 10 minutes.
• Mix whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl. Combine carrots, pineapple, raisins, and walnuts together in a separate bowl.
• Whisk 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons white sugar, olive oil, molasses, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and cardamom together in a separate bowl. Mix curdled milk mixture and sugar mixture into flour mixture just until batter is mixed; fold in carrot mixture. Spoon batter into muffin cups until each is completely filled and domed.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS WITH CHEESECAKE FILLING (LITE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Spray bakers joy into 6 Jumbo (or 12 regular) muffin tins and set aside. In a small bowl, blend cheese filling ingredients until thoroughly mixed and set aside.
• In a large bowl or stand mixer, cream butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Add egg, orange juice concentrate and half and half. Stir in carrots to incorporate.
• In a seperate bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add to batter and mix well. Fold in the pecans.
• Spoon batter 1/3 full into each of the muffin tins. Spoon about 1 Tbsp of the cream cheese mixture into the center, then cover with remaining batter. Bake for 16-18 minutes.

CHOCOLATE CHIP CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
• Whisk flour, sugar, coconut, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt together in a large bowl; add carrots, oil, pineapple, eggs, and vanilla extract and mix until batter is evenly combined. Fold chocolate chips into batter; spoon into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 15 to 30 minutes. Cool muffins for 20 minutes before serving.

VEGAN MINI CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a small bowl mix baking powder and applesauce into a foamy mixture, set aside.
• In large bowl mix flour, sugar baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt; mix.
• Add oil, honey, carrots, water or pineapple (some of the juice might help), and applesauce mixture.
• Mix well.
• Add nuts, raisins, or dried cranberries if preferred.
• Scoop mixture into cupcake liners.
• Bake at 325°F for 30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Once cooled, frost with icing (powered sugar, vegan Earth Balance butter, organic vanilla, and water).

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 15 regular-size muffin cups; spray paper cups with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; make well in center of mixture. In medium bowl, stir pineapple, oil, eggs, egg whites and vanilla with whisk; add to flour mixture, stirring just until moistened. Fold in carrots, pecans and raisins. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.
• Bake 22 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Serve warm or cool.

LOW-FAT CARROT CAKE MUFFINS (THAT DON'T TASTE LOW-FAT!)

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners or spray tins with non-stick cooking spray.
• In a large bowl mix together first 7 ingredients.
• In a small bowl whisk together egg, oil, milk and vanilla.
• In a medium bowl mix the shredded carrots with the crushed pineapple.
• Add in the oil/egg mixture into the carrot/pineapple mixture; mix well to combine, then add to the dry ingredients; mix JUST until combined.
• Add in the raisins and chopped nuts.
• Divide the mixture between the 12 muffin tins.
• Bake for about 20-25 minutes, or until the muffins test done.

CHOCOLATE CHIP CARROT CAKE MUFFINS (SMALL BATCH)

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 3 cups of jumbo muffin pan (3/4 cup capacity) with paper liners or lightly butter the bottoms of the cups and then rub a little bit of butter around the rim of each cup to help the muffins form a nice rounded top. Set aside. (or 4 to 5 regular size muffin cups)
• 2. Place flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a bowl and blend to mix the ingredients thoroughly. Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the mixture and blend. Transfer this mixture to a bowl and make a well in the center of the mixture.
• 3. Place the oil, egg and vanilla in a bow and blend. Mix in the carrots, pineapple, walnuts and raisins. Pour this mixture into the center of the flour mixture and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened. Don't over mix, please!
• 4. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups, dividing it evenly. Fill the empty muffin cups with water halfway, which prevents scorching. Bake the muffins approximately 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 5. Cool 5 minutes, carefully remove muffins and water from tin. Cool muffins completely. Drizzle tops with cream cheese glaze, if desired, but they are great without the glaze!
• 6. For cream cheese glaze, just mix cream cheese, confectioner's sugar and pineapple juice to desired consistency, smooth and creamy.

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING AND CARROT

Steps:

• preheat oven to 170-180 degrees depending on how hot your oven is.
• grease 6 hole texas muffin pan or a normal 12 muffin pan.
• mix oil, eggs, flour,sugar, cinnamon in bowl with spoon.
• stir in carrots and pineapple.
• pour mixture into muffin pan holes.
• bake in oven about 30-35 minutes.
• stand cakes 5 min before turning out onto wire rack.
• turn cakes so tops are up to cool.
• make cream cheese icing and mini carrots.
• spread with icing and place carrots on cake.
• cream cheese icing.
• beat butter and cream cheese til light and fluffy.
• beat in icing sugar gradually.
• mini carrots.
• put apricots in a cup of boiling water to cover stand 10 minute.
• drain apricots dry with paper.
• cut snake into six 3 cm lengths.
• place one snake piece at the top of apricot half roll apricot around snake allowing to stick out of the top of the apricot and make several think cuts to look like a leaf.
• or use green coloured cream cheese icing mix and place at top of apricot on muffin to look like leaf.

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS WITH CINNAMON GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Lightly grease 2 muffin pans, or use paper liners.
• In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, allspice and salt. Mix in brown sugar, white sugar and coconut.
• In a separate bowl, combine eggs, oil, 1/2 cup buttermilk, carrots, pineapple, and vanilla. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and add the egg/buttermilk mixture. Mix until batter is moistened.
• Fill muffin cups 3/4 full.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the tops spring back when lightly tapped. Allow to cool.
• In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 2 to 3 tablespoons buttermilk. Mix until smooth, then refrigerate until thickened. Drizzle over cooled muffins.

BLUEBERRY-CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350° F. Place paper baking cup in each of 15 regular-size muffin cups, or grease with shortening.
• Drain blueberries from muffin mix in strainer set over bowl, reserving 2 tablespoons liquid for glaze.
• In large bowl, mix muffin mix, buttermilk, oil, cream cheese and eggs until just combined (batter will be lumpy). Fold in carrots, nutmeg and drained blueberries. Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each three-fourths full.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from muffin cups.
• In small bowl, beat Glaze ingredients with whisk until smooth. Drizzle over muffins.

CARROT CAKE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Put carrots and apple sauce in to food processor, mix until it has the consistency of baby food. Set aside.
• Sift all dry ingredients together.
• Stir oil, eggs, and carrot mixture together until well blended.
• Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, fold gently until blended.
• Add raisins and nuts mix gently. (Be careful not to over mix, or the muffins will be rubbery).
• Pour into well greased muffin tins, bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick come out clean.
• Cool completely then top with icing if desired.