Easy Carrot Muffins

I loooove carrot cakes! What I love more than carrot cake is carrot muffins! They are easier to make and in my opinion they taste and look better! Here is the recipe I would like to share with you...

for 12 muffins approximately

• 1 egg
• 150 gr sugar
• 2 Tbsp honey
• ¼ tea cup of orange juice/grapefruit works too
• ¼ tea cup oil
• ½ grated orange/grapefruit zest
• 2 full tea cups of grated carrots
• 1 tea cup flower
• ¼ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla aroma
• 1 tea cup full of grated walnuts
• ½ tsp Cinnamon and Ginger powder
• 2-3 Tbsp Coconut flakes

For the cream:

• 1 packet (200gr) of natural cream cheese (Filadelfia or the cheeper one work fine as well)
• 125 gr Mascarpone
• 5 Tbsp powder sugar
• 1 tsp grated orange zest

Mix the eggs,oil, the orange/grapefruit juice and then add the sugar and the honey. Whisk them good but without using an electric mixer .

Mix all the ingredients well and add the dry ones last: flower, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla aroma, spices, walnuts, coconut.

Set the oven to 180ºC and bake 25-30 min. Leave the muffins to cool down.

Meanwhile you can start preparing the cream. Just mix all the cream ingredients in a ball using an electric mixer. You can use whatever decoration you want.

My muffins turned out so yummy and pretty that I wanted to paint them. In one hand I was holding a brush and with the other I was eating a muffin :D

If you want to check out more of my recipe and painting tutorials, please visit my blog. Thank you for reading! <3

Colorfully yours,

Simone