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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 18 Minutes |
Ready In: 18 Minutes Servings: 19 |
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I had a hankering for carrot cake one evening so I made some substitutions on a batch carrot cake. I made cupcakes. You can make muffins if you leave the frosting out. Read more . you could make a cake too if you change the cooking time. Ingredients:
4 eggs |
3/4 cup of vegetable oil |
1/2 cup of apple sauce (or another 1/2 cup of oil is you don't have) |
1 cup of splenda for baking (or 2 cups white sugar) |
2 tsp. vanilla extract |
2 cups all purpose flour |
2 tsp baking soda |
2 tsp baking powder |
1/2 tsp salt |
2 tsp cinnamon |
3 1/2 cups of grated carrot (you may want to squeeze some of the juice out is they are really wet) |
2 oz raisins, more or less if you like |
1 cup chopped pecans (optional) |
1 cup shredded coconut (optional) |
(you can add lots of things to this, i added some leftover zucchini that i had in the fridge and shredded it) |
muffin papers |
grandma's cream cheese frosting (this is so good you'll never go back) |
8 oz. cream cheese |
1 tsp vanilla extract |
1 cup powdered sugar |
8 oz cool whip |
*the frosting is not overly sweet and as light as a dream |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. In a large bowl, beat together Eggs, Oil, Applesauce, Splenda and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in Flour, Baking soda, Baking powder, Salt and Cinnamon. Stir in carrots. (*Be careful not to over mix, because with all quick breads, if you over mix the finished product will be flatter than usual. Nobody likes an unraised muffin*) Fold in raisins, pecans, and coconut if you are including them in the recipe.
3. Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup and a spoon and load the muffin papers with 1/4 cup filling each. (For me this recipe made 19 muffins, so two batches in the oven)
4. Bake in the oven for 16 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick can be inserted an pulled out clean.
5. Let cool completely and then top with frosting:
6. Frosting: mix cream cheese and powdered sugar together until smooth.
7. Add vanilla extract
8. Add 1/3 of the cool whip an mix until uniform throughout
9. Add the rest of the cool whip
10. Give a lucky person the spatula and frost the muffins with a knife, a finger, or just dunk the muffin in.
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