Gulrótarmúffur

Carrot muffins

I've been a passionate fan of Icelandic carrot cake for a long time and have tried different versions of it. This time I baked carrot muffins for a change, definitely recommended!

The dough was enough for me for 22 muffins.


Ingredients

3 eggs
380 g brown sugar
200 g margarine
160 ml milk
380 g flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 pinch of ground vanilla
400 g carrots

200 g cream cheese
100 g powdered sugar
1 tsp grated orange peel

1 Tbsp chopped nuts/pistachios or similar


Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Mix the eggs with the sugar until foamy.

Melt the margarine.

Mix the melted margarine and milk with the egg-sugar mixture.

Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and vanilla and mix everything thoroughly.

Peel the carrots and grate them as finely as possible.

Then fold the grated carrots into the dough.

Pour the batter into the muffin cups...

...and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 25 minutes until the muffins are golden brown.

Let the muffins cool slightly.

Then for the glaze, mix the cream cheese with the powdered sugar and the grated orange peel...

...and decorate the muffins with it. If you like, add chopped nuts, pistachios, etc. on top for decoration - if you like, even marzipan carrots like I did here.

Min. Chill in the fridge for 2 hours to allow the glaze to firm up a little, then serve.

[Translated from here.]