Lightened Carrot Cake Muffins and Sour Cream Icing
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- Number of Servings: 36
Ingredients
Sour Cream Icing:3 tbsp Butter, unsalted 1/2 cup Sour Cream, reduced fat 1 tbsp Maple Grove Farms 100% Pure Maple Syrup 1/2 Lemon juiced 1 dash Salt 2 cup, unsifted Powdered Sugar Carrot Cake Muffins:3 cups all purpose flour 1 1/2 cup Oat Bran 1 tsp Salt 2 cups unpacked Brown Sugar 2 tsp Baking Soda 4 tsp Cinnamon, ground 3 tsp Allspice 2 large Eggs6 tbsp Coconut Oil- melted3 tsp Vanilla Extract 1 container Coconut Yogurt1/4 cup lowfat milk3 cups grated Carrots1 1/2 cup crushed unsweetened pineapple (drained)1 cup Walnut pieces
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Muffins:
Beat together coconut oil, eggs, brown sugar, yogurt, milk and vanilla. Add oat bran and let rest for 5 minutes. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon and allspice. Stir in walnut pieces, grated carrot and crushed pineapple.
Fill lined muffin tins 3/4 full and bake for 15-18 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes clean from largest of the muffins.
Let muffins cool and make sour cream icing:
Whip on high sour cream, butter, lemon juice and maple syrup. Add 1 cup powdered sugar and dash of salt. Incorporate and add the remaining powdered sugar and beat for 3-4 minutes. Icing will be more runny than frosting, this is normal.
Drizzle icing over cooled muffins with a spoon smoothing over the tops of each muffin.
Serving Size: makes 36 muffins with icing
Muffins:
Beat together coconut oil, eggs, brown sugar, yogurt, milk and vanilla. Add oat bran and let rest for 5 minutes. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon and allspice. Stir in walnut pieces, grated carrot and crushed pineapple.
Fill lined muffin tins 3/4 full and bake for 15-18 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes clean from largest of the muffins.
Let muffins cool and make sour cream icing:
Whip on high sour cream, butter, lemon juice and maple syrup. Add 1 cup powdered sugar and dash of salt. Incorporate and add the remaining powdered sugar and beat for 3-4 minutes. Icing will be more runny than frosting, this is normal.
Drizzle icing over cooled muffins with a spoon smoothing over the tops of each muffin.
Serving Size: makes 36 muffins with icing
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 170.2
- Total Fat: 6.5 g
- Cholesterol: 14.7 mg
- Sodium: 156.7 mg
- Total Carbs: 30.1 g
- Dietary Fiber: 1.3 g
- Protein: 2.8 g
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