Carrot Muffins

12 servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes

Quick and Easy Carrot Muffins are made with whole wheat flour, buttermilk, shredded carrots, cinnamon, and ginger for a tasty, healthy fall muffin recipe. 

These tasty whole-wheat muffins are like Carrot Cake on the go, that you can feel good about serving for Breakfast. Tender muffins filled with warm spices and natural sweetness – no frosting needed!

Carrot Muffin with bite removed

CARROT MUFFINS

Hearty, healthy Carrot Muffins are a delicious grab-and-go breakfast perfect for chilly fall mornings. They are so quick and easy to make, you can have them in the oven in minutes and they will be ready to eat when you are ready to start your day. They keep well at room temperature too, so make them on Sunday and enjoy them as your go-to breakfast all week long.

This Carrot Muffin recipe is made with fresh carrots that add moisture and sweetness as they bake. You can use either pre-shredded carrots, grate the carrots by hand, or just use a food processor and pulse until they are tiny bits. Using a food processor is a great trick if you have picky eaters who will avoid any carrot they can see no matter how delicious the muffin is!

Carrot Muffins in cupcake tin before baking

These Carrot Muffins are made in a stand mixer, but you can mix them by hand or use a handheld blender. The key to a light and tender muffin is to keep from overmixing the batter, so we like a stand mixer you can set on low speed. If you want to make these muffins by hand, use a whisk to get the wet ingredients smooth and to create air when you add in the dry ingredients.

Our Carrot Muffin recipe is so versatile, you can add or substitute ingredients on hand to make them more healthy, more indulgent, or just more fall flavored! You can add some Pumpkin Puree for a Thanksgiving breakfast muffin, use olive oil or coconut oil instead of vegetable oil, or add vanilla extract to really make the spiced flavor pop. Check out the variations below for easy, delicious ways to make these Carrot Muffins your own.

Carrot Muffins in cupcake tin

Carrot Muffins are tasty mini-breads that taste like an old-fashioned carrot cake without the sweet frosting so you can feel good about serving them for breakfast. If you wand to serve them for dessert, simply top with Cream Cheese Frosting. To make your Carrot Cake Muffins more fall flavored, add a teaspoon of Pumpkin Pie Spice to Buttercream or cream cheese frosting.

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Carrot Muffins in muffin tin

VARIATIONS ON CARROT MUFFINS

  • Nuts: Walnuts and carrot cake are a natural combo, so gently stir in ½ cup chopped walnuts to your batter. Try pecans, almonds, or hazelnuts too!
  • Chocolate Chips: Add up to ½ cup chocolate chips or baking chips to your muffin batter, folding in flavors like dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, cinnamon chips, or toffee chips.
  • Buttermilk: Instead of buttermilk, you can substitute Greek yogurt, sour cream, or a dairy-free milk. Coconut cream is a good non-dairy substitute that is still rich and creamy without mi
  • Fruit: Dried fruit and berries are great healthy mix-ins for Carrot Muffins. Gently fold-in a ½ cup golden raisins, dried cherries, or cranberries.
  • Sugar: You can use brown sugar instead of white sugar, or a mixture of both. You can also use molasses, maple syrup, or honey to sweeten your muffins. If you want sugar-free muffins, you can use coconut sugar.
  • Cream Cheese: Cut up a block of cream cheese into 12 squares and roll in cinnamon sugar. Fill muffin tin halfway with batter, add cream cheese square, and top with remaining batter.

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HOW TO STORE CARROT MUFFINS

  • Serve: Carrot Muffins can be kept at room temperature for up to 4 days. Keep covered in a cool, dry place with a paper towel to absorb moisture so they taste fresh longer.
  • Store: Cool Carrot Muffins before storing in a sealed container for up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator. Reheat on low heat in the oven or 20 second bursts in the microwave.
  • Freeze: Once cooled, wrap each Carrot Muffin in aluminum foil and place in a freezer safe plastic bag. Freeze for up to 6 months and heat muffins wrapped in foil in the oven until warm.

Carrot Muffins in stack

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Easy Carrot Muffins

Quick and Easy Carrot Muffins are made with whole wheat flour, buttermilk, shredded carrots, cinnamon, and ginger for a tasty, healthy fall muffin recipe.
Yield 12 servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Bread
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder

Ingredients
 

  • 1 large egg
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 2 cups shredded carrots

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with muffin liners.
  • To a stand mixer (or a large bowl with a hand mixer) add the egg, buttermilk, vegetable oil and sugar.
  • Mix on the lowest speed setting until smooth, about 30 seconds.
  • Sift together flour, wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ground ginger and add it to the wet ingredients until just combined on the lowest speed setting.
  • Fold in the carrots, then scoop into the muffin liners.
  • Bake for 20-22 minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 207kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 179mg | Potassium: 175mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 3608IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 1mg
Keyword: Carrot Muffins

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the upcoming cookbook: Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients which is being published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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