01 Aug Spiced Carrot & Apple Mini Muffins
Spiced Carrot & Apple Mini Muffins
I recently attended the Citibabes’ Holiday Shopping event and had the pleasure of meeting the brains behind Feeding Audrey, a wonderful blog portraying the story of the journey through motherhood. I left the event with some beautiful recipe cards and wanted to share this delicious recipe. I hope you enjoy!Spiced Carrot & Apple Mini Muffins 30 mini muffins
Ingredients
- 2  flax  eggs (see below)
- 1.25 cups all-purpose gluten-free flour blend
- ¼ cup gluten-free oats
- ¼ cup turbinado sugar
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. cinnamon
- ¼ tsp.  ginger powder
- â…› tsp. ground nutmeg
- â…› tsp. cardamom
- 1.25 cups unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ cup canola oil
- tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 red apples, grated (Fuji, Gala, or Pink Lady)
- 2 large  carrots, peeled and grated
Instructions
Method:
- To make flax eggs, combine 6 tbsp of water with 2 tbsp of flax meal. Stir well and place in fridge to set for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 375ËšF and line mini muffin pan with liners or spray with cooking spray. Whisk dry ingredients together in a large bowl. In a separate bowl whisk together applesauce, oil, vanilla, and flax eggs. Slowly stir the wet ingredients into dry ingredient, fold in the grated apples and carrots. Place 1 tbsp of batter into muffin pans. Bake for 25 minutes or until center comes out dry on a toothpick. Cool on a wire rack.
Notes
This recipe and photograph are courtesy of www.FeedingAudrey.com
