Healthy Carrot Walnut Muffins
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 12 muffins 1x
Description
An easy, guilt free (and dairy free!) breakfast or snack on the go made with whole wheat flour and applesauce.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- ¼ tsp allspice
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 cups carrots, grated
- ½ cup walnuts, roughly chopped
- ⅓ cup + 2 tablespoon vegetable oil*
- ⅓ cup + 2 tablespoon applesauce
- ½ cup chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350˚F. Grease a muffin pan and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flours, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and all spice.
- In another mixing bowl, whisk together sugar, egg, vanilla extract and salt. Stir in carrots, walnuts, applesauce, and vegetable oil.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. If using the chocolate chips, stir them in here.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan, filling each one about ¾ of the way full.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean.
- Cool for 5 minutes. Remove muffins to a wire rack and cool for another 5 minutes.
Notes
If you want to be super healthy, coconut oil would also work well!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
Christina Marie Calzacorta says
The only issue i have with this otherwise healthy, and appealing recipe, is using white sugar...What other sweeteners could be used ?
Britt says
Made these for the first time and the batter seemed dry. Was not pourable into the muffin tins (but rather needed to be spooned, more like scone batter). Any thoughts on what may have gone wrong? I did double check all the measurements and ingredients.