Light and soft carrot cake muffins

Name: Light and soft carrot cake muffins
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 3 people (6 muffins)
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 130 g flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp cinnamon powder; 2 eggs; 160 g sugar; 110 cc vegetable oil; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 150 g carrots; 4-5 slices pineapple (optional); 100 g cream cheese; 30 g butter; 50 g sugar; Pinch crushed walnuts (optional)

Keiko A @keiko

Tokyo

I've always LOVED carrot cakes and I decided to make small carrot cake muffins to enjoy with my family this Easter 🐰🥕
#familymeal

Keiko A @keiko

Tokyo

I've always LOVED carrot cakes and I decided to make small carrot cake muffins to enjoy with my family this Easter 🐰🥕
#familymeal

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Ingredients

1 hr

3 people (6 muffins)

For the muffins
130 gflour
1 tspbaking soda
1 tspcinnamon powder
2eggs
160 gsugar
110 ccvegetable oil
1/4 tspsalt
1 tspvanilla essence
150 gcarrots
4-5 slicespineapple (optional)
For the cream cheese frosting
100 gcream cheese
30 gbutter
50 gsugar
Pinchcrushed walnuts (optional)

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Steps

1 hr

1

Sift the flour. Leave the cream cheese and butter at room temperature so they soften. Dice the pineapple slices.
2

Peel and cut the carrots into small pieces. Heat the carrots in the microwave at 600W for 2-3 mins so they soften. (Adjust the heating time according to your microwave.) Create a carrot paste using a blender.
3

Put the vegetable oil and sugar (for the muffins) into a bowl and whisk well. Add eggs to the bowl and whisk well again. Add salt, vanilla essence, and the carrot paste and mix.
4

Add the sifted flour, baking soda, and cinnamon powder into the bowl and mix with a rubber spatula. Add the diced pineapple slices and mix.
5

Preheat the oven at 180℃. Place muffin cups into the muffin tray and pour in the muffin mixture. Bake in the oven at 180℃ for 30 mins.
6

Make the cream cheese frosting. Put the cream cheese and butter into a bowl and mix well. Add sugar (for the cream cheese frosting) and mix well again.
7

Cool the muffins once baked, coat the top with the cream cheese frosting, and sprinkle with crushed walnuts. Enjoy!

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Keiko A @keiko

on April 05, 2021 01:44

Tokyo

Japanese living in Tokyo with my husband and 2-year-old son 🗼I cook every day for my family, mainly Japanese food but also cuisines from other cultures 👩🏻‍🍳🌏I hope I can share some of my recipes that my family enjoys and that can (hopefully) be recreated in other countries with available ingredients 🥰