These muffins are fluffy, sweet, and packed with wholesome ingredients including apples, carrots and whole-wheat flour. Kids can help prepare the entire dish since it doesn’t require an electric mixer.
Apple Carrot Muffins
These muffins are fluffy, sweet, and packed with wholesome ingredients including apples, carrots and whole-wheat flour. Kids can help prepare the entire dish since it doesn’t require an electric mixer.
Servings
12 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup apple peeled and grated (about 1 apple)
- 1 cup carrot peeled and grated (about 1 carrot)
Instructions
- Adults:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Kids 2 and up:
- In a large bowl, mix flours, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. In a separate, medium-sized bowl, combine eggs, sugar, vegetable oil, apples, and carrots. Add egg mixture to dry ingredients and stir well. Line two standard 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.
- Kids 6 and up:
- Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups, filling each one about three-quarters full.
- Adults:
- Bake muffins at 350°F for 20 to 25 minutes, or when a toothpick comes out clean from 1 or 2 center muffins. Cool the muffins for 1 hour.
- Kid Tip: Leave carrot grating to bigger kids (age 8 and up), since it can be tricky for the small kids.
- Cooking Tips: Gala or McIntosh apples are best for baking. To make mini muffins, reduce baking time to 15 to 18 minutes, since they bake faster than the regular-sized muffins.
- Source: Recipe from Easy Meals to Cook with Kids© 2010 by Julie Negrin
You can try using almond flour in place of the flour but I have no idea how it will work.
Any way to make these kosher for passover? Can you advise on alternative flour and quantity?
Thanks Frippie, you are hired! I found the rest and fixed it.
Thank you for the corrections! I’m sorry, but sometimes I can’t help but see errors. If you’re serious about an editing job, please contact me. (I must have left half a dozen comments on errors I found yesterday – I was just trying to find a recipe that would work for me!)
Something happened to your list of preparation directions! Looks like a bunch got deleted before or as you were posting this. It starts in the middle of a word on #3. Please correct this and notify me when you have. This sounds like a great recipe and I really want to try it! Thank you.