Bakery Style Carrot Oat Muffins :: Gluten Free & Dairy Free
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup olive oil Or melted butter or coconut oil. Avocado oil would be fine here too
- ½ cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp blackstrap molasses
- 1 cup blanched almond flour
- ¾ cup oats plus some for sprinkling the top of the muffins if you wish (Not rolled oats. I use these sprouted oats for best digestion)
- ½ cup Namaste GF Flour Blend fluff it up before measuring
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp aluminum free baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 3 cups shredded carrots I don’t peel them, but you can. I use the shredding tool on my food processor to make it go fast. You’ll need at least 2 large carrots or 3 medium carrots.
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees and line a cupcake tin with unbleached paper cup liners or silicone liners. This recipe will make 10 large, bakery style muffins, or 12 regular sized muffins. You could also do mini muffins and get about 24 or so.
- Blend the eggs, olive oil, syrup, and molasses about 1 minute until smooth.
- Add the almond flour, oats, Namaste flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt and blend to combine. Add the carrots and blend to combine.
- Scoop the muffin batter into your muffin cups, and top with a sprinkle of oats if you wish. Bake the muffins at 350 degrees. Large, bakery style muffins like the size in this post will bake for 35 minutes. Regular sized muffins will bake for 25 minutes. If you try mini muffins, they will need about 15 minutes. The tops of the muffins should be golden brown and spring back to touch.
Notes
- This recipe doubles great and is freezer friendly. Just cool the leftover muffins and store in gallon freezer bags in the freezer.
- If you are egg free, try 2 flax eggs, and perhaps make some of the liquid for the flax eggs some apple cider vinegar so that it will react with the baking powder and create some rise. The flax eggs will bind, but will need some help to fluff up.
- If you are nut free, I’m sure you can swap the almond flour for something else – let us know what you try so that others that are nut free can have some options!