Soft, fluffy, and moist carrot cake muffins with a bit of decadent cream cheese on top to make this recipe one of your new favourite for a little snack 🥕🥕 Made completely from scratch with real grated carrots and the option to add nuts, these will be a hit for Easter! 🐰
Makes: 12 mini carrot cakes
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Natvia sweetener
- ¾ cup butter
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups almond flour
- 2 tsp nutmeg
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 ½ cups grated carrots
- 1 cup walnuts (chopped)
- 500g cream cheese
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and take cream cheese out of fridge to come to room temperature.
- Line a muffin tray with 12 patty papers.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and Stevia until combined. Beat in the vanilla extract and the eggs. Set aside.
- In another bowl, mix together the almond flour, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir the dry ingredients into the bowl with the wet ingredients.
- Stir in the grated carrots. Fold the chopped walnuts.
- Transfer the batter evenly among the prepared pans. Bake for 35 minutes until the top is golden and springy.
- Let the muffins cool in the tray for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- In a bowl beat the cream cheese until light an fluffy. Dollop onto completely cooled muffins and enjoy!
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