Carrot Cake Muffins; fluffy cinnamon-spiced muffins laced with grated carrot, chopped walnuts and sweet raisins, drizzled with a quick vanilla icing! Who said you can’t have cake for breakfast?
Apparently it’s not really a societal norm to eat cake for breakfast. It is merely a habit of fellow food bloggers and glorious rebels who simply don’t give a damn.
This fact irks me. It’s about time we found a way to turn all the delight of cake into the kind of food we can eat without judgment at our desks at 8am on a Thursday morning.
These Carrot Cake Muffins are an ideal hybrid of breakfast and dessert. Big and ugly but still highly tempting. These fluffy spiced muffins are crammed full of chunky toasted walnuts, sweet carrot and chewy raisins, and drizzled with a quick vanilla icing. Raisin haters, you can leave them out if you must.
Carrot cake has always been viewed as a big of an old-fashioned favourite, a cake born form impoverished need, and full of ingredients that can make some people raise an eyebrow. Adding vegetables to cakes can lend a subtle sweetness and valuable moistness, it’s not just to sneak nutrients into children!
I, like many other Brits, am still a firm lover of carrot cake, and I believe it deserves more recognition than it gets. It isn’t the prettiest cake, it isn’t the most fashionable cake, and it certainly isn’t the most jaw-droppingly-indulgent cake. However, it always comes out of the oven moist, rich with a blend of cosy sweet spices, and often slathered with tangy cream cheese frosting.
Did I make these muffins just because I didn’t have cream cheese to make a proper big carrot cake with? Maybe. Was the result delicious and worth sharing anyway? Definitely.
Regardless of how they came about, these Carrot Cake Muffins are just straight-up tasty. They are also very easy to make, and their bumpy appearance is very forgiving for baking novices! Not looking too appealing? Get that vanilla drizzle on.
I recently took these into work for a charity bake sale – along with my McVitie’s Chocolate Digestive Cupcakes – and I was really pleased to see that they were popular. For a full list of ingredients and a recipe to make these yummy Carrot Cake Muffins, simply scroll to the bottom of the post!
