Sweet and healthy?! Yes, that IS possible! With these gluten free carrot apple muffins you can have delicious and healthy all in one tasty muffin!
If you think I’m on a muffin kick lately, you’d be right. I can’t help it though… I’ve had some requests for egg free muffin recipes and I’m on a roll! Packed full of fruits and veggies, these muffins are delicious, easy and amazingly… healthy! There are seriously so many things to love about these carrot apple muffins – the oats, the fruits, the veggies, the fact that they store incredibly well – oh and, that it’s gluten and egg free!
And low fat.
The list could go on and on.
I could say so many things about this batter, but even though it may not look like very appetizing right now, just wait. All of this comes together and bakes up into the most beautiful and tasty muffins that will have your tastebuds tingling. And just look at those muffin cups. They are guest-ready! (Thanks to my Mary & Martha friend for those!)
And they’re a one bowl wonder. Yes, just one bowl prep – no mixing the dry ingredients in a separate bowl, no electric mixer – just one bowl is all you need.
Add a few ingredients and mix, then add a few more and mix again. No need to worry about overmixing here. Honestly, I used to be so careful about this, but what I’ve embraced about gluten free baking is how overmixing is almost never a problem.
Other than crushing blueberries or melting cheese, there’s no worry of making the end result tough from mixing too much.
Even though this is an easy recipe to make, here are a few tips I’ve discovered along with my few failed attempts:
Grating the apples and carrots
Having worked on this recipe quite a few times to get it right, I am confident saying that grating the apples is a much easier task than grating carrots. No big surprise there. It was about the second try at these that using the food processor to do the carrots popped into my head.
It’s a must-have, friends!
If you have a grate attachment on yours, just add each carrot and viola, freshly grated carrots. I did it without the attachment because I used baby carrots. Just added them and hit pulse a few times. Done.
Make it dairy free
Fortunately for this recipe, making it dairy free has no impact on taste or the end result. Easily swap out the milk for dairy free milk.
Storage
It’s almost like these muffins are in a class by themselves when it comes to storage. They can easily be placed in a plastic bag and then left on the counter for a couple days. If they last that long! Or another option would be to freeze them – they freeze really well.
And now for the amazing recipe…
Gluten Free Carrot Apple Muffins {Egg Free and Low Fat}
Ingredients
Flax eggs
- 3 Tbsp. Flax seed meal
- 6 Tbsp. warm water 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp.
Muffins
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 small mashed banana
- ¼ cup agave
- 1 small apple grated
- ½ cup brown sugar packed
- ½ tsp. salt
- 1 ½ tsp. baking soda
- 3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup grated carrots packed
- 2/3 cup oats
- ½ cup oats coarsely blended
- 1 cup + 2 Tbsp. gluten free bread's flour blend
Instructions
- In a large bowl, prepare flax egg by mixing flax seed meal with warm water. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 375 F. Prepare muffin tin by spraying with cooking spray or use individual muffin cups.
- Once the flax eggs are ready, add olive oil, mashed banana and agave to the bowl. Stir with a whisk to combine.
- Add apple, brown sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon. Whisk until completely incorporated.
- All at once, add milk and stir to combine.
- Add grated carrots and stir.
- Add the oats, blended oats and flour blend and stir to combine.
- Fill 12 muffin cups with all the batter.
- Bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until toothpick tests done.
- Let cool for 15 minutes before removing from muffin tin or muffin cups.
Notes
- Mix the flax egg together first - the mixture should get thick.
- The bake time is correct - with the addition of the carrots and apples, these muffins need to a bake a bit longer.
- Let the muffins cool for the full 15 minutes before removing from the pan to finish cooling.
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