Healthy Carrot Walnut Muffin Recipe

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Muffins are a lot of fun to make and even more fun to eat. This healthy muffin recipe using carrots and walnuts is dairy-free too. It’s great for breakfast or a quick snack.

Healthy Muffin Recipe

Vegan Carrot Walnut Muffins

Ingredients:

  • ¼ cup oil (coconut/sunflower)
  • ¼ cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • ½ cup soy milk
  • ½ cup water
  • ¼ cup carrot, grated
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ tsp. cinnamon powder
  • 3-4 cardamom (only seeds)
  • Small piece of ginger, crushed
  • Handful of raisins, almonds

Vegan Spicy Carrot Walnut Muffins Ingredients

Method:

Preheat oven to 190 C (or 375 F) for 5 minutes.

Beat milk, oil, sugar and water together until sugar dissolves and to form a smooth consistency.

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Stir in rest of the ingredients except walnuts to the mix and lightly mix all ingredients.

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Pour the batter into the baking tin and garnish with grated/chopped almonds.

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Bake at 190 C (or 375 F) for 30-35 minutes.

Allow the muffins to cool on the rack for 10-15 minutes.

Enjoy!

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Tips:

  1. You can check if the cake is cooked by poking a toothpick right into the muffin.
  1. You can increase/decrease the amount of sugar based on your taste.
  1. You may need to increase/decrease the amount of water as carrots might lose some water in the mix.

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Comments

Jenn

Oh these sound yummy. I’ll have to share the recipe with our daughter. She is vegan and always looking to try new recipes.

Liz

Interesting … wouldn’t have thought to use carrots in a recipe! Sounds like a healthy snack.

Rachel Dean

These look delicious! Thank you for the recipe! I love carrot muffins.

Hannah Middleton

LOVE it when I see good vegetarian and/or vegan recipes. These look fairly easy to make too. Definitely going to have to try it out!

Lisa Martens

I’m not vegan but these definitely look delicious! I love when you can sneak some vegetables in to something the kids wouldn’t suspect. I love carrot cake so I’m sure these would be a great addition to my recipes.

Crystal Wachoski

These look great and I love that you used healthy ingredients. I’m wanting to eat one!

Ron Leyba

Amazing recipe. Thanks for sharing this. Might try this soon!

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