Super moist carrot muffins with perfect orange icing… it sounds like a great dessert! Plus, you can make them quickly using just one bowl. Simply carrot cake flavour in the muffin size, perfect on-the-go treat. 🙂

How to keep carrot muffins extra moist?

Use only freshly grated carrots! Do not use ready pre-shredded carrots from the store as they will not give extra moisture to the batter.
Use the right amount of vegetable oil even it seems like too much. Oil will help to keep the batter really moist and soft.
Do not over-bake the muffins. To make sure they are baked well use toothpick – inserted in the middle of muffin should come out clean.

Carrot muffins with orange icing

Course: Dessert, BreakfastDifficulty: Easy

Servings

muffins

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Ingredients

Carrot muffins:
2 cups freshly grated carrots (about 4 medium carrots)
1,5 cup plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ground ginger, 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
Orange icing:
3 tsp finely grated orange peel
3 tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice
1 cup powdered sugar

Directions

Preheat your oven to 180⁰C.
In a large bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients shortly: oil, carrot, vanilla extract and eggs.
Add dry ingredients: the sifted flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and spices. Mix until ingredients are well combined.
Line a muffin tin with paper or silicone cupcake liners (or grease well with cooking spray).
Fill muffin liners (2/3 full).
Bake for 25 minutes.
In a meantime prepare the orange icing: put orange peel and juice into small bowl, then gradually add powdered sugar until icing is nice and thick.
Remove muffins from the oven, cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Drizzle with orange icing and enjoy!

Notes

Use eggs that are at room temperature. They will mix more easily into the batter and won’t cool it down.
Use only freshly grated carrots (don’t use ready pre-shredded one from the store), they will give extra moist to the batter.

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Carrot Muffins with Orange Icing