Carrot Muffins

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Spelt is simply a amazingly saccharine and nutty grain, but a spelt batter needs all-purpose flour to support from becoming excessively heavy. These moist muffins are airy successful texture. The streusel topping adds a crunch.

Here's a bully baking tip: Fill alternate wells successful a muffin pan, truthful each muffin has country to dispersed retired and cook evenly. For this recipe, usage 2 12-well muffin pans oregon 1 ample 24-well muffin cookware (with 1/3-cup wells). When greasing the pans, marque definite you grease extracurricular the rim of each muffin good truthful the muffin apical does not stick.

The muffins tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 1 day, but they are champion eaten the time they are made.

Adapted from "Good to the Grain," by Kim Boyce with Amy Scattergood (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2010).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8 Makes muffins with ample tops

For the topping

1/4 cupful positive 2 tablespoons spelt flour
2 tablespoons oat bran
2 tablespoons acheronian brownish sugar
1 tablespoonful granulated sugar
1/8 tablespoonful kosher salt
3 tablespoons acold unsalted butter, chopped into 1/4-inch pieces

For the muffins

4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted and somewhat cooled, positive much for greasing the pan
1 cupful spelt flour
3/4 cupful all-purpose flour
1/4 cupful oat bran
1/3 cupful packed acheronian brownish sugar
1/4 cupful granulated sugar
1 spoon crushed allspice
1 spoon kosher salt
1 spoon baking powder
1/2 spoon baking soda
1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
2 mean carrots, peeled and grated (1 1/2 cups)
1 cupful buttermilk
1 ample egg

Nutritional Facts

Per muffin (using low-fat buttermilk)

Calories
310
Fat
12 g
Saturated Fat
7 g
Carbohydrates
49 g
Sodium
600 mg
Cholesterol
55 mg
Protein
8 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Good to the Grain," by Kim Boyce with Amy Scattergood (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2010).

Tested by Samuel Fromartz.

Published May 4, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026