Beautiful days with friends relaxing on their family farm, eating fluffy carrot cupcakes and sharing sweet memories.
These cupcakes came about like that! My friend had had all sorts of hassles with an oven not working, having to put the prepared batter in the fridge overnight and then trying to figure out how to fix them the next day so they would rise!
Well look what happened! The end result were the fluffiest, most moist and delicious cupcakes ever!
I came home and had this beautiful bunch of purple carrots starring at me in the fridge along with my beautiful local fresh market blueberries! The thought came! Do a twist on a traditional carrot cake muffin with sultanas and use blueberries instead and purple carrots for a deep purple colour!
The colour is fabulous when baked! A very deep colour with even richer blueberry purple coloured pops throughout! Yum!
The molasses can easily be replaced with another syrup sweetener, but the molasses does have a rich type flavour and is also very mineral rich.
I use an Avocado oil from Costco which is a beautiful neutral flavour and light in colour. After some research we have found out that it’s not produced with hexanes or other harmful chemicals etc so is great for making cakes or mayonnaises.
You can easily use orange carrots in the muffins instead of the purple ones. They are often available at my farmers market and thought this was a perfect use for them!
Enjoy these gorgeous muffins! I’m sure neither you or your kids will be disappointed!
- 100g Organic White Spelt Flour
- 100g Wholemeal Spelt Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Bicarb Soda
- 120g Rapadura Sugar
- 1 tsp Pimento
- 1/2 Orange, tested
- 150ml Avocado or Macadamia Oil
- 20g Mollasses or Coconut Flower Nectar
- 2 Organic Eggs
- 200g Purple Carrots, grated
- 100g Blueberries
- 250g Cream Cheese
- 80g Organic Butter
- 50-80g Honey or Maple Syrup (for really white icing use milled raw sugar)
- 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice or 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a 12 hole cupcake tin with baking paper or muffin cases.
- Place the flours, baking powder & soda, rapadura & pimento into the Theromix mixing bowl and mix 5 Sec/Speed 5.
- Add the orange zest, oil, molasses & eggs and bring the mix together Speed 4/5 Sec.
- Add the carrot & blueberries and mix together 5-10 Sec/Reverse/Speed 2.
- Divide the mixture among the paper cases and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the muffins comes out clean. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes, before cooling completely on a wire rack.
- Place all ingredients into the Thermomix mixing bowl and mix 20 Sec/Speed 4. Pipe frosting with desired piping nozzles onto cooled muffins.
- *The molasses can easily be replaced with another syrup sweetener, but the molasses does have a rich type flavour and is also very mineral rich.
- *I use an Avocado oil from Costco which is a beautiful neutral flavour and light in colour. After some research we have found out that it's not produced with hexanes or other harmful chemicals etc so is great for making cakes or mayonnaises.
- *You can easily use orange carrots in the muffins instead of the purple ones. They are often available at my farmers market and thought this was a perfect use for them!