Muffins with nuts and carrots: easy and simple recipe
The muffin they become an exquisite, soft and fluffy dessert, which can be taken almost any time of the day. Whether at breakfast, mid-morning or snack, they are a delicious option because of their great versatility in terms of the ingredients that we can use in their preparation.
As you surely know, muffins are a kind of bun or round dough made with cake dough, small size, which are usually presented inside a curly paper mold.
Its external appearance make it a sweet easily distinguishable, at the same time extremely characteristic, since they usually have the shape of a shell. Among the ingredients that are usually used in its preparation, the following are particularly important: flour, eggs, butter, wheat flour, yeast, sugar and lemon.
It is a traditional dessert from both France and Spain, although its origin is actually unknown. Some historians coincide in pointing out its origin towards the year 1755, when a young maid named Madeleine Paulmier made some cakes for King Stanislaus I Leszczynski. This is how the traditional Commercy cupcakes, originating in the French region of the same name.
Other historians, however, point out their origin in Spain, specifically at the time of the Christian pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela. This version tells that a young girl, named Magdalena, had the habit of serving pilgrims some conch-shaped cakes, an element that in fact soon became an authentic symbol of this pilgrimage.
Be that as it may, the truth is that we are faced with an exquisite and fluffy sweet, as long as the ingredients are used in their proper measures, and in which we elaborated as we discussed a wide variety of ingredients can be used. On this occasion we suggest you some delicious muffins with nuts and carrot. Do you dare to prepare them ?.
How to make some muffins with nuts and carrots
Ingredients:
- 150 g Of flour
- 70 g. of sugar
- 3 carrots
- 1 egg
- 50 g of nuts
- 8 cl. of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 envelope of chemical yeast
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- Butter (to spread the molds)
Preparation of walnut and carrot muffins:
- Put in a bowl or large bowl the extra virgin olive oil, sugar, and mix everything very well, either by hand or using a blender.
- Then add the egg and continue beating until you get a rather homogeneous liquid.
- Wash the carrots well, peel them and rake them, incorporating them into the previous mixture. Mix well again so that the carrot is integrated into the contents.
- Sift the flour together with the yeast. Add the ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg to the flour. Mix everything well, and add it to the previous mix.
- Chop the nuts into small pieces, and mix again.
- Spread the molds where you cook the muffins with a little butter (to avoid sticking), and fill the gaps to three quarters of the mold.
- Put them in the oven, and bake them for 25 minutes at 180ºC. Of course, it is important to control the cooking so that the muffins are perfect.
- Once ready remove them from the oven and let them cool.
A trick to know if the muffins are ready ...
There is a very simple trick that will help you to know if the muffins are already cooked in the oven or not. Just press the top of the cupcake. If after loosening the pressure the mass regains its initial shape will mean that they are ready. ThemesCupcakes Recipes
