Wednesday, February 23, 2011

DELICIOUS CARROT MUFFINS

This is a wonderful, easy, nutritious recipe that uses healthy ingredients and your friends and family will love them!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Soak 1 Cup Raisins in 2 Cups Warm Water for about 15 min.  Drain off water.

Combine in a large bowl:
2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour  (Fresh Ground in your NUTRIMILL is best!)
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
2 Teaspoons Baking Soda
1 Teaspoons Salt
1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon

In your BOSCH UNIVERSAL MIXER, with the COOKIE PADDLE ATTACHMENT, Combine and Mix:
4 Eggs
1 Cup Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil
1/2 Cup Honey

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix only until dry ingredients are moistened.

Fold in:
3 Cups Shredded Carrots or Carrot Pulp  (Apple Pulp is good, too)
Drained Raisins

Spoon into greased muffin tins (I use a Pam-type spray).  Bake in preheated oven for about 30 minutes until done.  Remove from muffin tins and let cool.  May be frozen.  Makes about 22 medium muffins.

HINTS:  I used an ice cream scoop to put the batter into the muffin tins.  They were a beautiful round shape when they finished baking!  Also, when I juice carrots and apples (remove the seeds from the apples before juicing), I use the leftover pulp in this recipe instead of shredded carrots.  No waste!