Carrot Cupcakes

These cupcakes were made past times budding pastry chef Julia Thompson for my book signing at Face In a Book back on Jan 11th. These are non your ordinary cupcake amongst sugar-laden frosting together with to a greater extent than saccharide inwards the cake. They are completely approved for my cancer-fighting diet. Some may depict them to a greater extent than similar a muffin, precisely they are delicious none the less.

Book signing for The Prisoner of Carrot Castle

Bring these cupcakes every bit a salubrious option for your child's birthday celebration at school. You tin plough over notice balance assured that you lot are non contributing to an over-sugared generation's addiction to sweets together with resulting obesity problems.

Carrot Cupcakes

from Chris Pedersen

yield 1 - two dozen cupcakes

category Dessert

cuisine Vegan

ingredients

iii carrots

1/4 C water

2/3 C of kokosnoot oil, melted)

2/3 C honey

1 egg

two C whole wheat flour

two tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp lemon extract

1/2 C chopped walnuts

1 tsp lemon zest

1/4 C kokosnoot sugar

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350º

2. Run carrots through juicer together with role juice together with pulp OR finely grate carrots.

3. Add H2O to carrots together with educate over real depression rut for 10 minutes, stirring oft to run on pulp from scorching. Let cool completely.

4. In large bowl, mix together the oil, dear together with egg. Then add together the cooled carrot mixture.

5. In divide bowl, mix flour, baking pulverisation together with salt.

6. Add carrot mixture to dry out ingredients together with mix well.

7. Add vanilla together with lemon extracts, chopped walnuts together with lemon zest.

8. Pour into cupcake papers together with sprinkle amongst kokosnoot sugar.

9. Bake for twenty minutes. Test amongst toothpick.

The recipe yields 1 to two dozen cupcakes depending on whether you lot role the mini-cupcake papers or the full-size.

What produce you lot think? Cupcake or muffin?

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