Carrot And Dried Currant Muffins Food

CARROT AND DRIED-CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 6 cups of a jumbo muffin tin (each cup should have a 1-cup capacity). Heat currants and 1 cup water in a small saucepan over low heat until currants are plump, about 20 minutes. Drain; let currants cool.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cardamom, and ginger in a medium bowl; set aside.
• Put eggs, oil, and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed until combined. Reduce speed to low. Add the flour mixture in three batches, and mix until just combined after each addition. Fold in the carrots and currants.
• Pour batter into prepared muffin tin, leaving a 1/2-inch space above batter in each cup. Bake until tops are golden and a cake tester inserted into centers comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Let muffins cool in tin on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Remove tin from rack, and lightly oil rack. Run a thin knife around the sides of muffins to loosen, and unmold. Let cool completely on rack.

CARROT CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, combine oats, milk, yogurt and vinegar in a mixing bowl, stir to coat, and allow to sit for 30-60 minutes to soften the oats (oatmeal style!) and give the vinegar a chance to work its magic. You can also pull your egg and carrots from the fridge to reach room temperature alongside it for best results. Out of all three test batches, the one I set out for an hour came out the fluffiest!
• Next preheat the oven to 375 F and grease a non-stick muffin pan by spritzing with spray oil or butter.
• In a clean bowl, combine flours, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and salt.
• In the bowl with the wet oat mixture, stir in egg, butter, applesauce, vanilla, brown sugar, carrots, and currants and mix with a fork until fully incorporated.
• Whisk together the dry ingredients and, using a sifter or a sieve, sift the flour mixture into the carrot mixture slowly, stirring with a fork to combine. Mix until just combined, avoiding over mixing the batter.
• Lastly, fold in the walnuts. Your final batter should be thick, sticky, and springy and your fork should almost be able to stand upright in the batter.
• Pour into greased muffin tin. For small muffins, you can divide the batter equally into 12 muffins but I prefer to fill 10 of the 12 at least 3/4 of the way full, for larger muffins with a bit of a muffin top. For a slightly sweeter muffin, top each with an optional sprinkling of cinnamon sugar.
• Set your muffin tin atop an aluminum baking sheet (optional; this helps prevent the bottoms from over browning) and bake for 12-15 minutes for 12 smaller muffins and 18-20 minutes for 10 larger muffins.
• Test with a toothpick and allow to cool to room temperature before faceplanting.
• See post below for optional icing recipe.

CARROT-CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 14 cups of two 12-cup muffin tins with baking cups, and lightly coat each with cooking spray.
• Whisk together flours, sugar, baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and the cinnamon in a large bowl. Whisk together yogurt, oil, eggs, and egg whites in a medium bowl. Fold yogurt mixture into flour mixture, then gently fold in carrots and currants until combined.
• Spoon batter into baking cups until each is three-quarters full. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of each comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Transfer pans to wire racks, and let cool for 10 minutes. Turn out muffins onto racks, and let cool completely.

CARROT AND CINNAMON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200c - grease twelve cup capacity muffins holes.
• Chop carrot and grate.
• Sift flour into a bowl. Combine butter, egg and milk in a jug (heat butter
• first) mix well. Pour onto flour. Stir gently until almost combined.Fold in
• carrot and cinnamon, Spoon mixture into muffin holes.
• Bake for about 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

CARROT MUFFINS WITH RAISINS AND DRIED PINEAPPLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F.
• Grease 18 muffin cups, set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat the eggs.
• Add buttermilk, oil, honey and vanilla and mix together until well blended.
• With a wooden spoon, stir in the carrots, raisins, pecans and pinepple.
• In a small bowl, mix together the flours, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• Gently fold the dry ingredients into the carrot mixture and mix until just blended (don't overmix).
• Spoon the batter into the muffin cups, filling to the top.
• Bake for 25 minutes, or until the muffins spring back when lightly pressed.
• Let cool for five minutes in the tins, then transfer to a cooling rack.

CARROT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6/fan 180C. Melt the margarine in the microwave.
• Top and tail, then peel and grate the carrots.
• Combine the carrots, sugar and margarine in a bowl.
• Sift in the flour, cinnamon and baking powder.
• Beat the eggs in a small bowl and then add to the mixture. Also mix in the nuts and sultanas.
• Line a muffin tray with 12 muffin cases and divide the mixture equally between them. Bake for 20 minutes.

SPICED CARROT & APPLE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a muffin tin with nine cases (alternatively, use squares of baking parchment). Mix the oil, yogurt, honey, eggs and vanilla in a jug. In a bowl, combine the flour, bicarb, mixed spice and ¼ tsp salt. Pour the yogurt mixture into the flour mixture and add the apple and carrot, as well as any extra ingredients you're using. Mix with a spatula until well combined, then spoon the mixture into the muffin cases.
• Bake for 20-22 mins, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean. Leave to cool for at least 5 mins. Can be stored in a tin for three days or frozen for two months; defrost overnight before serving.