This recipe has less sugar than carrot cake but is just as tasty with the ginger and cinnamon. You can also add dried fruit and nuts if you like.
Makes about 10 small muffins.
Ingredients
100 g self-raising flour (or plain flour + 1 tsp baking powder)
50 g granulated sugar
100 ml vegetable oil
2 large eggs
125 g carrots
half tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda
half tsp salt
2 tsp ginger (dried or grated fresh)
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp mixed spice (optional)
100 g dried fruit and/or chopped walnuts (optional)
zest of 1 orange (optional)
Method
1. Preheat the oven/air fryer to 180 °C.
2. Coarsely grate your carrots.
3. In a large bowl, beat the eggs and add the oil, grated carrots (and any other fruit or nuts you’re using).
4. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and sugar.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
6. Spoon mixture into cupcake cases. If you aren’t using a muffin tray, use double cases so they hold their shape.
7. Bake for approx. 10 minutes until cooked through.
8. Turn muffins out onto a wire rack to cool.
Top tips
Test if a muffin (or cake) is cooked through by sliding a knife down through the centre. If the knife comes out clean it’s cooked. If the knife comes out a bit wet, pop the muffin back in the oven for a few minutes.
Equipment
Scale, sieve, measuring jug & spoons, 2 mixing bowls, grater, cupcake cases, 2 spoons.
Did you know?
- People have been eating ginger for over 3,000 years as an ancient medicine and a tasty ingredient in Asian cooking. And now we have it all over the world.
- Ginger has lots of superpowers called ‘antioxidant phytochemicals’. It lowers fever, blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure and helps prevent you from getting cancer, arthritis, diabetes and dementia.
- If you feel sick or have a tummy ache, ginger can also help.
- Dried ginger has more super power than fresh ginger!
- Fresh ginger is called root ginger as it’s the root (also called a rhizome) of the ginger plant.
- What large animals love to eat the leaves and stem of a ginger plant? (elephants!)
- Ginger goes well with carrot and can be used in savoury dishes like soup and curry too.
- Carrots’ superpower is called carotenoid which creates Vitamin A which is really good for your eyesight.
