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Cook time:
Serves: 12
(4 Votes)Ingredients
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225g self-raising flour or plain flour plus 3 tsp baking powder
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100g icing sugar optional, for creamy icing
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175g brown sugar
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50g mascarpone cheese optional, for creamy icing
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1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
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2 eggs lightly beaten
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20g butter softened, optional, for creamy icing
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1 tsp lemon juice optional, for creamy icing
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1 apples finely grated
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3 carrots finely grated
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1/2 tsp nutmeg grated or ground
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150ml oil sunflower, vegetable, or light olive oil
Method
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Grease muffin tins or line with paper cases (makes approx 6 large, 12 medium, or 20 mini muffins).
- In a large bowl mix together the flour, sugar, salt and spices, using your hands to remove any lumps from the brown sugar if needed.
- Add oil and eggs and gently the fold mixture together.
- Stir in carrot and apple.
- Spoon into muffin tins, nearly to the top.
Bake for approx 25-35 minutes depending on the size of the muffins. - Check with a skewer if unsure - if it comes out clean the muffin is cooked, if sticky leave them in for a bit longer.
- Leave in the tin to cool a little, then turn out.
- For optional creamy icing, blend ingredients and top each muffin.
Handy Hint
The original recipe was used by Dan Lepard in the first Mumsnet bake along. I have made some improvements to the recipe as a result of his advice and tips and my many subsequent experimental batches (oh, how I suffer, nom nom).
Watch baking guru Dan Lepard trying out the recipe: www.mumsnet.com/food/bake-day-with-dan-lepard
Variations:
I have had some success varying the carrot / apple mix (more apple seems to be popular). Other Mumsnetters have even been known to use parsnips or courgettes in this.
If you have a sweet tooth you will probably want the icing, as they can be quite savoury without it. Alternatively you can add a little more sugar to the mix, either white or brown.
Additional Information
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Kids can help
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cake
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carrot
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apple
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Cake/Dessert
Your comments
joinsing 28/03/15 08:32
Made a few changes: - sub half of the oil with apple sauce (unsweetened) - reduce sugar to 140g - add handful of raisins - add handful of oats Same everything else - worked brilliantly. Also did it one time as above but sub one egg with 1tsp chia seeds and 1 tsp flax seeds in a cup of water (soaked for 15mins before adding). A step to far with the subs but think it just needed more bulk (more carrot, maybe, or oats).
giraffesCantDateDucks 13/03/13 20:33
Delicious! Kids loved them! Froze half and left half out but I should have left them all out! Very popular. I loved them too! Will be making again. We didn't even put icing on!
Sugarbeach 05/03/13 11:51
Brilliant for lunch boxes, good way to get dd to eat carrots and apple. I made some changes by reducing the sugar to 125g, adding 50 ml sour cream, 50g raisins and 50g grated coconut.....Just made a batch and put some in the freezer....yumm.
LisaJaneN 10/06/12 18:21
I made these but I did tweek the recipe a bit, I added a handful of museli a tablespoon of golden syrup and a splash of milk. Baked for same time and they make a great breakfast muffin.
20/05/10 12:38
Very tasty and moist. Took longer to prepare than the recipe estimate, but the results were very popular.
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