Recipe: Delicious Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins

Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins. Weekend muffins to make with the kids. Especially when it's served with a cup of great tasting coffee. Choose from chocolate chip, fruit or other tasty varieties.

Try Fruit Explosion Muffins (Tim Hortons copycat recipe)! These Fruit Explosion Muffins are loaded with strawberries and blueberries (or any berries you want!) and have a strawberry jam surprise inside! They are made with whole wheat flour and sour cream makes them extra moist. You can cook Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins using 28 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins

1. Prepare of Chia fruit spread: add to a pot.
2. Prepare 2 cup of Each rhubarb washed and cut, strawberries, green apples peeled, mangos. (Can be fresh or frozen).
3. It's 1 of Vanilla bean scrapped then throw the pod in the pot.
4. You need 1 of Lemon zested and squeezed.
5. You need 1/4 cup of Chia seeds (optional I ground half of them in coffee grinder).
6. It's of In a blender add:.
7. You need 1/2 cup of Large flake gf oats.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of Quinoa flakes.
9. It's 1 cup of Almond pulp (wet from mylking) or almond flour.
10. It's 1/2 tsp of Baking soda.
11. It's 1 1/2 tsp of Baking powder.
12. It's 1/4 tsp of Sea salt.
13. Prepare 1 tbsp of Pumpkin pie spice.
14. Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla.
15. Prepare 1/4 cup of Honey or maple syrup.
16. You need 1/4 tsp of Stevia or more to your preferred sweetness.
17. You need 2 of Bananas.
18. It's 2 tbsp of Ground flax mixed with 1/4 cup water or 2 eggs.
19. Prepare 2 tbsp of Chia seeds.
20. It's 1/2 cup of Your choice natural nut or seed butter.
21. It's of Fold in:.
22. You need 1 cup of Carrot pulp from juicing (or peeled and grated).
23. Prepare 1/4 cup of Coconut.
24. Prepare 1 cup of Fruit spread (best if cooled) divided, 1/2 cup into batter.
25. You need of Cinnamon sugar topping.
26. It's 1/4 cup of Hemp hearts.
27. You need 1 tbsp of Coconut sugar.
28. You need 1 tsp of Cinnamon.

And better yet, there is no added sugar in these delicious muffins. Yup, completely free from added sugar! These Carrot Cake Muffins are sweetened only with the natural goodness of fruit. Plus they have a generous serve of vegetables.

Fruit Explosion Carrot Muffins step by step

1. 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..
2. 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..
3. In blender throw all the muffins ingredients except the fold ins and blend. It doesn't have to be completey smooth..
4. 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..

So this makes these Carrot Cake Muffins just the perfect muffin for school lunches. During the winter dad braves the roads and gets a couple of Tim Horton coffees and some Muffins and we enjoy the start of our family day at home. The little one will almost bounce with joy as he opens the paper bags and dips his fingers into the icing of the Pumpkin spice muffin. jsburhoe, via Everycup.ca. SEE MORE STORIES These Fruit Explosion Muffins are packed with berries and have a strawberry surprise in the center! They are just as good as your bakery favorite but made completely from scratch.