Sharing a favorite muffin recipe today! My Apple Spice Carrot Muffins are the perfect after school or morning snack. Apple Muffin perfection!
Muffin Recipe
Making muffins on the weekends is one of my favorite things ever. You are going to love these soft, not overly sweet apple spice muffins with shredded carrots throughout. Hope you enjoy!
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Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Start by creaming your butter and honey.
Add your egg.
Applesauce!
Shredded carrot.
Dry ingredients up next.
Add some bran, fill cupcake liners and bake! Most muffin recipes use a 12–cup muffin pan, each cup having a capacity of about ⅓ cup. This has become a standard size for the new, non-stick muffin pans and most aluminum pans for sale. If your pan has larger or smaller cups, adjust the baking time by about five minutes more for the larger muffins, five minutes less for the smaller ones.
Soft, hearty and perfect. Try them chilled too.
Tips For Making The BEST Muffins
- Start with ingredients at room temperature, eggs, milk, etc.
- Don’t over mix the batter.
- Use fresh ingredients and spices.
- Grease the entire muffin tin well.
- Fill muffin tins three-quarters full..
- Allow muffins to cool in the pan at least 10 minutes before removing them from tin.
What’s The Best Way To Store Muffins?
- Similar to any other types of bread, muffins should be placed into an airtight plastic bag or an airtight container. Properly wrapped muffins will keep stay fresh for 3-4 days at room temperature.
Can You Freeze Muffins?
- If wrapped well in an airtight container, frozen muffins will keep well for up to 3 months. NOTE: To prevent condensation on the muffin tops, be sure that muffins are completely cool before freezing.
Apple Spice Carrot Muffin Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup cinnamon applesauce
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup shredded carrot
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup bran
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 9 muffin tins with cupcake liners.
- Place butter, sugar and honey into stand mixer, beat until well combined. Add egg, Kroger Applesauce, vanilla and carrots. Beat until combined. Slowly add flour, bran, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt. Beat until just combined. Scoop into cupcake liners, 3/4 full. Bake for 20-22 minutes, until baked through. Let cool then serve room temperature or chilled.
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These muffins look yummy and easy! This Kroger giveaway looks awesome, its my grocer of choice and it’d be nice to win a gift card!
I am trying to eat less sugar and have less sugary treats around the house so my family eats better also. I made a healthy snack bar instead of cookies yesterday.
Started juicing my breakfasts! Hello, veggies.
So healthy! Thanks!
I am drinking more water and getting more fiber into my diet!
Okay this would be an awesome thing to win to start off the new year on a good foot for healthy eating!
I love carrot cake, need to try muffins!!
Looking forward to including healthy options to add variety to family meals/snacks.
Looking forward to trying new heathy options this year!
My little victory is keeping my water bottle full at work and actually drinking water throughout the day rather than waiting to guzzle it all down at dinner!
These look tasty and healthy!
Like you, eat more greens and just try to eat cleaner.
These muffins look delicious! Cant wait to make them.
Thee muffins sound and look delicious! Happy and healthy and of course fun 2015!
A Beautiful salad and chicken for lunch!
My little victory is skipping dessert last night!
Oh my! These look wonderful. YUM.
I haven’t had a little victory today. It’s been a rough day.
errands with two kids!
Working on school and housework! Yay!
I’m walking to drop something off instead of driving
I’m going to drink more water as a start! My kids and I can applesauce in the fall….can’t wait to try this recipe with our applesauce 🙂
My little victory is having dinner planned by 10 o’clock that morning, hopefully before if I’m really organized!
Look and sound really good. I can’t wait to try them.
This week my little victory was skipping my sugary soda that I love so much. Next week I’m going to add some more water to that new habit.
I got to work from home today so I had a healthy lunch.
I’m 9 days soda-free. That’s huge for me!
Today I vacuumed and did laundry for the first time since being sick. It was a good little victory for me 🙂
I am drinking 8 glasses of water a day!!! and getting lots of exercise walking back and forth to the rest room!
I exercised three times this week so far.
Looks delicious and healthy – love the unadorned beauty of these little gems!
These sound delicious!
Smaller portions!
Thanks for the opportunity! I’m eating more green veggies like kale and spinach in 2015.
I love how healthy these are! And what a great giveaway!!
Actually, my little victory for today was driving my Mom and myself through a snowstorm to arrive home from a hospital 60 miles away safe and sound. But, with respect to eating, I gave up my sugar bingeing a few months ago and today I remain greatful that just for today it has not returned. And, this new muffin recipe sounds like a winter storm day joy – if I only had the ingredients here at my Mom’s. Definitely saving for another day. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day!