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Carrot cake muffins

5 from 3 votes
Prep Time:15 minutes
Cook Time:28 minutes
Calories: 4549kcal

Ingredients

Carrot cake batter

  • 70 grams brown butter
  • 80 grams sunflower seeds oil or any oil you like
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon ground
  • 60 grams granulated sugar
  • 100 grams brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 175 grams grated carrots
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 130 grams all purpose flour

Frosting

  • 60 grams butter
  • 140 grams mascarpone cheese
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 250 grams powdered sugar

Instructions

1)First step, sugars

  • Begin by preparing all your ingredients and equipment for this recipe, make sure to use a clean and dry bowl for this. You wanna combine brown sugar and granulated sugar.

2)Second step, dry ingredients

  • In the same bowl we are gonna add baking soda, ground cinnamon and flour. Once all the ingredients are in the bowl, take a whisk and gently mix everything together. The whisk will help ensure that the baking soda, cinnamon and flour are evenly distributed throughout the batter.

3)Third step, brown butter

  • You wanna start by placing the butter in a pan and set it on low medium heat, allow the butter to melt completely. Once its melted, it will start to foam and now it’s when we start stirring to ensure even heating. It will start to change its color and it’s gonna turn into a golden brown color, remove the pan from the heat and allow it to cool down a little.

4)Forth step, liquid ingredients

  • Now crack two eggs In a separate bowl to make sure they’re safe to use and add them to the dry ingredients, add the brown butter and oil as well. Mix everything but don’t over mix.

5)Fifth step, carrots

  • Grate carrots and then add them to the batter, make sure to not overmix and never blend the batter.

6)Sixth step, muffin tin

  • Grease a muffin tin with fat and then place the muffin liner on top, fill them 1/3 with the carrot cake batter and then you wanna bake them at 200 C (392F) for about 13 minutes and then for 15 more minutes at 180 C (356F). Always keep an eye to your oven because the times are really approximate.
  • Check if they’re cooked with a toothpick, insert it on the center of it and pull it out, if it comes out clean without Anya batter sticking to it its probably cooked.

7)Seventh step, frosting

  • First of all you wanna beat butter on your stand mixer until it turns white and very fluffy, it should take you about 10-15 minutes, do it until it turns white, if you feel like 15 minutes are not enough feel free to do it for longer.
  • You wanna add the powdered sugar slowly and keep mixing in the stand mixer. We add vanilla and mascarpone. Beat for about 5 more minutes and it will become more fluffy and soft. You can keep it in the fridge if the weather is too hot.

8)Eight step, decorate

  • You wanna fill a piping bag (with a piping tip inside) with the frosting and you can now decorate it however you want to, we added walnuts, mini carrots we made with white chocolate and then fresh mint. And theyre ready to eat :)

Nutrition

Calories: 4549kcal | Carbohydrates: 529g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 259g | Saturated Fat: 115g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 29g | Monounsaturated Fat: 81g | Trans Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 747mg | Sodium: 2290mg | Potassium: 1007mg | Fiber: 9g | Sugar: 411g | Vitamin A: 34922IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 451mg | Iron: 9mg