Carrot cake muffins, full of cinnamon and spice and glazed with a cinnamon-vanilla icing! The perfect grab-and-go breakfast that is really just an excuse to eat cake for breakfast.
Homemade muffins are the BEST!! And the smell of these muffins baking in the oven is ah-mazing.
Carrot Cake Muffins
Print RecipeIngredients
- CARROT CAKE MUFFINS:
- 3/4 cup canola oil
- 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 tablespoon mild molasses
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract (I used Rodelle Pure Vanilla Extract)
- 1/4 cup vanilla greek yogurt, room temperature
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (I used Rodelle)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- pinch of salt
- 2 cups finely grated carrots
- VANILLA-CINNAMON ICING:
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons hot water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (I used Rodelle)
Instructions
PREPARE MUFFINS: Preheat oven to 425-degrees and line two cupcake tins with cupcake liners. Set aside. In the bowl of your stand mixer, affixed with the paddle attachment, add the oil, brown sugar and molasses. Beat the mixture on medium-high speed until combined. Add eggs one at a time, beating each egg into the mixture thoroughly before adding the next egg. Add vanilla extract and greek yogurt and beat thoroughly into mixture.
With the mixture on low speed, add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt to the wet ingredients and mix on low only until ingredients are barely incorporated.
Remove the bowl from the mixer and add the finely grated carrots by hand to the mixture, gently folding them in. Pour batter into the cupcake liners, filling 3/4 of the way full with with batter. Bake muffins, one tin at a time, in 425-degree oven for 5-minutes. After 5-minutes, leave the muffins in the oven, but reduce the oven temperature to 375-degrees and continue baking for 10-13 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out without raw batter on it. Let muffins cool completely before icing.
PREPARE ICING: In a bowl, mix together the melted butter, sugar, water, vanilla and ground cinnamon. Add additional powdered sugar if icing is too loose or more water if icing is too stiff. Use a spoon to dollop the icing on top of the cooled muffins.
5 Comments
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen
March 26, 2020 at 7:41 AMOh I love the sound of these muffins! Carrot cake is one of my favorites!
Katherine | Love In My Oven
March 26, 2020 at 8:45 PMI ADORE carrot cake, Kelly!!! Sign me up for a dozen of these, please. Extra frosting!!
crumbtopbaking
March 30, 2020 at 7:34 AMI can never resist carrot cake in any form, and that vanilla cinnamon icing looks delicious!
Laura
March 30, 2020 at 10:35 AMNot only a good excuse to eat cake for breakfast, I think this also qualifies as a vegetable side dish for dinner. Doesn’t it? Thanks, Kelly for the recipe!
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