Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, fruit explosion carrot muffins. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fruit explosion carrot muffins using 28 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins:
- Prepare Chia fruit spread: add to a pot
- Make ready 2 cup Each rhubarb washed and cut, strawberries, green apples peeled, mangos. (Can be fresh or frozen)
- Take 1 Vanilla bean scrapped then throw the pod in the pot
- Make ready 1 Lemon zested and squeezed
- Take 1/4 cup Chia seeds (optional I ground half of them in coffee grinder)
- Make ready In a blender add:
- Get 1/2 cup Large flake gf oats
- Make ready 1/2 cup Quinoa flakes
- Take 1 cup Almond pulp (wet from mylking) or almond flour
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Baking soda
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Sea salt
- Prepare 1 tbsp Pumpkin pie spice
- Take 1 tsp Vanilla
- Get 1/4 cup Honey or maple syrup
- Make ready 1/4 tsp Stevia or more to your preferred sweetness
- Prepare 2 Bananas
- Prepare 2 tbsp Ground flax mixed with 1/4 cup water or 2 eggs
- Prepare 2 tbsp Chia seeds
- Get 1/2 cup Your choice natural nut or seed butter
- Get Fold in:
- Make ready 1 cup Carrot pulp from juicing (or peeled and grated)
- Make ready 1/4 cup Coconut
- Take 1 cup Fruit spread (best if cooled) divided, 1/2 cup into batter
- Get Cinnamon sugar topping
- Get 1/4 cup Hemp hearts
- Get 1 tbsp Coconut sugar
- Take 1 tsp Cinnamon
Instructions to make Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins:
- Make fruit spread. Mix all ingredients together In a pot. bring to a boil and allow to simmer and break down and thicken. Pull out vanilla pods. With an immersion blender or potato masher process till desired consistency. Allow to cool. Will make about two 16 oz jars. Keep one in fridge and one in freezer. Great to spread on toast, add to plain yogurt, top pancakes, make bars…etc.
- Alternatively you can skip this step all together and just add 1/2 cup on Apple sauce to muffins or cut up fruit. And then your favourite jam for the center of the muffins.
- In blender throw all the muffins ingredients except the fold ins and blend. It doesn't have to be completey smooth.
- Fold in the add ins, scoop 1/4 cup into sprayed muffins tins. Add 1 spoonful of the reserved fruit spread on top of each muffin, then top with another 1/4 cup batter. Makes large fruit explosion muffins! Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar topping. Bake 375 17-22 mins. Allow to cool in pan on rack for at least 5 mins. They are moist muffins, best kept in fridge if they last past a day in your house. I made 12 smaller muffins and 12 mini muffins.
How to Elevate Your Mood with Food
Many of us have been trained to think that comfort foods are terrible and to be avoided. However, if your comfort food is candy or junk food this is true. Otherwise, comfort foods can be extremely nourishing and good for you. There are several foods that actually can improve your moods when you eat them. When you feel a little down and are needing an emotional boost, try some of these.
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Now you can see that junk food isn’t necessarily what you have to eat when you want to help your moods get better. Test out these tips instead!
