Healthy Carrot Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting
Easy and low-calorie recipe for healthy carrot muffins served with an easy and lite cream cheese frosting.
Kochutensilien
- 1 box grater
- 1 hand mixer or kitchen maschine
- 1 muffin tray with paper muffin cups
Zutaten
for the muffin dough
- 2 medium-sized carrots
- 100 g whole wheat flour ~¾ cup
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 100 g soy yoghurt ~ ⅓ cup + 1 tbsp
- 45 g erythritol ¼ cup
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 pinch of nutmeg
- 1 pinch of salt
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon orange peel grate
- 60 ml soy milk (¼ cup) or another non dairy milk
- 2 eggs
for the cream cheese frosting (optional)
- 160 g fat reduced cream cheese ~¾ cup
- 20 g powdered sugar (~3 tbsp) or a calorie-free erythritol-based powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Anleitungen
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F (or 180°C/350°F convection). Line the muffin tray with paper or silicon muffin cups.
muffin batter
- Peel the carrots, grate them finely, and mix them with flour, baking powder, yoghurt, milk, erythritol, spices, orange zest grate and vanilla extract.
- Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites in a separate bowl until stiff and stir the egg yolks into batter. Then gently fold the beaten egg whites into the batter.
- Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups and bake them in the oven for 20 minutes (until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean). Allow the muffins to cool down completely.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Mix all ingredients for the frosting until smooth and spread it on the muffins using a spoon.
- Tip: If not all muffins are eaten at the same time, keep frosting and muffins separately in the refrigerator.
Notizen
Nutritional values for one muffin without frosting:
- Calories: 48 kcal
- Fat: 1.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 5.8 g
- Protein: 2.6 g
- Calories: 68 kcal
- Fat: 2.7 g
- Carbohydrates: 6.2 g
- Protein: 3.8 g
Nährwerte
Calories: 48kcal
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