Smart Cakes: Healthy and Delicious Light and Veg Recipes by Claudia Boni

Author:Claudia Boni [Boni, Claudia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Ànemos
Published: 2020-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Carrot Chocolate Chips Mega-Muffins (veg)

Ingredients (makes 8 mega muffins):

- 2¼ cups peeled and grated carrots (i.e. 250 g / ½ pound raw carrots, approx. 3 large or up to 6 small/medium carrots)

- 1 cup (125 g) all-purpose flour

- 1 scant cup (100 g) seed mix

(e.g. almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts)

- ½ cup (100 g) dark chocolate shavings (optional)

- 2 tablespoons wheat malt

- 1 sachet (16g/0,56oz/4tsp) organic baking powder (or 2tsp/8g cream of tartar + 2tsp/8g baking soda)

- 2 pinches cinnamon

- 1 pinch salt

- 8-9 disposable aluminum foil muffin cups

(size: 2”x1,6” – 5x4 cm per cup)

Directions:

Finely grate carrots.

Mix dry ingredients, except for chocolate shavings, in a large bowl (i.e. flour, seed mix, baking powder, cinnamon powder and salt).

Add wheat malt and grated carrots and stir with a fork or a wooden spoon until roughly mixed. Batter should be fluffy and tender, not thin or too runny. Add a little extra flour if needed.

Fold in chocolate shavings (OPTIONAL).

Pour the batter into the disposable aluminum foil extra-large baking cups - or an aluminum foil extra-large muffin pan -, previously oiled (or lined with parchment paper or paper cups if you prefer) to easily extract the muffins once cooked. Fill each cup ½.

Bake for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown, in a pre-heated oven at 170° C / 340° F.

Test for doneness by inserting a toothpick, or the tip of a hard knife. If it comes out clean, it’s done.

Once cooked, turn off the oven and leave the muffins inside for 2-3 additional minutes, door open, to dry and crisp the crust.

Transfer to a wire rack to cool down completely.

Serve cold.

HINTS AND TIPS

Large and Extra-large (Jumbo) muffins are bakery-style, huge, giant muffins, actually bigger and taller than standard ones. Quite more similar to cakes in their biggest shapes, they’re frequently served in coffee-shops and bakeries.

Large and Extra-large (Jumbo) muffins are usually cooked in disposable aluminum foil cups to better keep the shape and take approx. 5 more minutes to cook, in respect to standard muffins.

Aluminum foil muffins cups are available in various sizes and formats, the medium ones usually measuring 2x1,6 inches = 5,08x4 cm (bottom diameter x height).

For adjusting this mega muffins recipe to standard size muffins baked in a 12-count muffin pan, reduce baking time to about 20 total minutes. Yields about 12 standard muffins.

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