Carrot Cake Paleo Muffins
When it comes to social situations, following a Paleo diet can be a challenge. Whether you’re visiting a friend for coffee, going to a birthday party, or having people over for dinner, sticking to a real food diet can be tough.
When you have delicious Paleo recipes on hand, you can whip up something great to share with others without the social awkwardness. You can also show others that eating real food isn’t as difficult as they might think. It’s fun to share Paleo brownies or cookies and surprise others who expect that gluten free food translates into tasteless cardboard.
Gluten-free goodies also make excellent conversation pieces. When people inquire about your food choices, it’s a great way to move the discussion onto debunking the myths of conventional wisdom and the benefits of losing the wheat. See? You could change someone’s life with a basket of muffins!
Tips for Success
I used the coarse part of the grater for the carrots. Do you know what I mean? On one of those hand graters, the bottom grates things finely–like parmesan cheese–and the top one is a little thicker. When I looked around at some conventional carrot cake recipes, some reviewers said that finely grating the carrots resulted in mushy spots in the cake. Gross.
You could add the optional raisins for something extra. But they’re high in sugar and some people have a hard time digesting them, so keep that in mind. Speaking of sugar, you could reduce the raw honey to 1/3 cup if you want to cut it down a bit.
Paleo Muffins: Carrot Cake
Ingredients:
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup raw honey
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1 1/2 cups coarsely grated carrot
- 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Whisk together almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, vinegar, raw honey and coconut oil.
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the egg mixture.
- Fold in the grated carrot.
- Add batter to a lined muffin tin.
- Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
- Muffins are done when a knife inserted into the center of one comes out clean.
© Liz Davis If CaveMom Baked Cookies 2012 | Paleo Muffins: Carrot Cake
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This is my first time on your site. The recipe looks delicious and easy! I have everything except coconut flour. The hardest part about starting to eat right is to know what to stock your pantry with!
Yes, that’s true. On a positive note, many of the conventional supermarkets are beginning to carry these products. As demand increases, we’ll be seeing a lot more things like coconut flour on the shelves. I love working with coconut products–they’re very versatile and can be used in both sweet and savory meals. Thanks for stopping by!
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What can a person who is allergic to tree nuts use in place of almond flour?
Hi Rhonda,
Check out this post on Paleo Parents: http://paleoparents.com/featured/nut-free-almond-flour-replacement/
They ground raw, hulled sunflower seeds to create a flour and found good results when they used it to replace almond flour in recipes. I can’t make any guarantees because I haven’t used it myself, but I think it would be worth a shot to find out. I’ll definitely keep it in mind to try in the future.
Thanks!
Liz
I finally got around to making these! Hubby just went completely Paleo this month and I have been looking for more recipes in my bookmark archives.
These muffins are amazing! I am going to cut the honey next time like suggested, they are almost too sweet after abstaining from table sugar. Lol I also added some organic coconut flakes on top which toasted nicely. I am definitely going to make this a regular recipe!
Hi Denaelen,
The coconut flakes sound like a great addition! I’ll have to try that one out myself.
I’m so glad you like the muffins. It’s crazy how sensitive you get to sweet tastes, isn’t it? I often make banana muffins with no honey at all, and I don’t miss it.
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