Moist Whole Wheat Carrot Honey Muffins
I have a ton of carrots from our CSA (not so many from our garden) and I’m always trying to do some thing new with them. So far this summer I’ve made meatloaf with carrots, carrot salads, roasted carrots and candied carrots but I haven’t baked them. To this end I came up with a carrot muffin sweetened with honey. These muffins turned out great and walk the line between a sweet and savory. To tilt them to the sweet side you could use my friends suggestion and layer the muffin with a layer of sweet cream cheese icing.
To quote my 8-year-old “Mmmmm”
Whole Wheat Carrot Honey Muffins
Preheat oven to 350°F
- 2 C. Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 2 Eggs
- 1 C. Milk
- 1/2 C. Vegetable Oil (I used canola)
- 1/2 C. Honey
- 2 C. Carrots – Shredded
Lightly oil the muffin tin or line with a muffin liner. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. In a large bowl combine the cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla along with the milk, honey and oil. Whisk until thoroughly combined. Add the eggs to the milk mixture and whisk thoroughly. Stir the flour mixture into the liquid until combined, be careful not to over mix, then gently stir in the shredded carrots. Scoop by heaping 1/4 C. scoops into a muffin tin and bake at 350°F for 13 to 15 minutes or until the tops are browned. Makes 12 muffins.
Enjoy!
Ooh, these look so good. Like carrot cake, but a little more virtuous. 🙂 I’m hoping I’ll get some carrots from the garden this fall–summer was a bust for me too!
I hope your fall carrots work out for you. In our case we planted them way too close together so we just have tons of tiny carrots.
This reminds me of a carrot cake recipe I used to bake years ago. I love the idea of making muffins with the carrots. I think I will put cream cheese on them. Thanks for sharing.
Next time I make them I am definitely going to put some cream cheese icing on them. This round we had them as savory muffins with dinner; roasted chicken and veggies with sauteed arugula.
How much salt?
I made these today and they turned out beautifully! I substituted coconut oil (melted) for the veggie oil and it gave a delicious flavor. I ended up putting in about 1/2 tsp salt. The recipe is inadvertently missing that ingredient even though it’s mentioned in the directions. I just guessed. They rose nicely and were very moist. I did have to bake mine a lot longer than 15 minutes though. I had to go about 22 minutes for mine to get done in the middle with a toothpick coming out clean. Otherwise, I love them! They’re not too sweet, but just sweet enough. I can definitely see how cream cheese icing would make these deadly!
Thank you for posting this! I just made them for my son’s 3rd birthday for his “cake”. Frosting them with cream cheese frosting may take some of the healthy away, but it is a celebration! Thanks again!
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I made these muffins tonight, and they were absolutely delicious! Moist & not too sweet – seems like they’ll be great to have as a quick breakfast or a healthy snack!
I also used canola oil, and followed your directions exactly. I probably used a smaller muffin tray, because I was able to make about 20 muffins with this recipe.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! I’m so glad you enjoyed them! They are my go to recipe when we get flooded with carrots from our CSA.
This recipe didn’t really work for me. I guessed how much salt I needed since it wasn’t in the ingredient list, and it took way longer than 15 minutes, it was more like 30 minutes in my convection oven and the middle muffins didn’t work out at all.
Same for me.
I did 1hr. Top and bottom were baked but inside was not done well. :-/
Does the c. Stand for cups?
Yes, the c. stands for cups.
I made them today and adjusted to the ingrediences I had: 1/4 tsp of each: ginger, coriander, cinamon. I didnt have the vanila and nutmeg. I also put 1/2 tsp of salt and coconut oil instead of vegetable oil. In adsition I added 1 sour cherry from can to each muffin. I have the version of 48 little tiny muffin sheet and let them 25 min in the oven…there are many adjuatmenta but it turned out very well…my little ones loved them a lot