How To Make Carrot Muffins - Easy & Fast

Hello everyone! 

Are you okay? I have finished 2/3 of my final exams and on the one hand I am really happy that I am almost done, but on the other hand I can not believe that it's over then. But I am going to make a separate post in order to give you an update about my life. 

So I had a terrible longing to make a carrot cake because I can't eat something like that in public as I have lactose intolerance. I found the recipe on Blogilates, which is a health and fitness blog mostly based on pilates and yoga, and started to make these spontaneously. Thus, I had to two a few arrangements that are listed in the brackets, but the muffins taste sooo incredibly good. This is actually a little bit healthier version of a carrot muffin, but seriously, my whole family totally loved them!

Ingredients: 

     •  8 egg whites (4 whole eggs)

     •  1 cup Rolled Oats

     •  1/2 cup cottage cheese, fat free (fat free quark)

     •  4 scoops Any Whey protein powder (4 scoops flour)

     •  2 teaspoons baking powder

     •  2 tablespoons vanilla extract (real vanilla)

     •  1/2 cup splenda (1/2 cup agave syrup)

     •  3 teaspoons cinnamon

     •  1 cup grated carrots

     •  1/3 cup crushed pineapple drained or applesauce

Optional (not included in cal calc)

     •  2 tablespoons raisins — optional 

     •  2 tablespoons almonds — or walnuts, optional

Directions:

1. Combine Egg Whites and next 7 ingredients (Egg Whites to Cinnamon) in a blender. Blend in a blender. Gently fold carrots, pineapples, nuts and raisins.

2. Spoon batter into muffin pans coated with cooking spray, filling 3/4 full. Bake at 375 degrees for   30 minutes or until golden. Remove from pan immediately.

Number of Servings: 14

Nutrition info: 71.9 calories per muffin. 0.5g fat. 7.6g carbs. 1.1 fiber. 8.5g protein.

Tell me whether you like carrot muffins and whether you have tested any of Blogilates recipes? I think, after this one I have to try out a few other of her recipes even though I wanted to start a healthier food plan ;) During the last weeks, I ate quite a lot of sweets, chocolate and cakes, because of all the learning and school stress. It seems like your body is craving for all the carbohydrates and sweets naturally, but that means that I haven't had the best diet recently. :)

Wish you a wonderful day! Love,

100 Calorie Moist Chocolate Muffins!

Hello everyone!

As it was a dark, rainy, cloudy - just horrible day outside and I had a terrible longing for chocolate desserts, I decided to search for a low-calorie chocolate muffin recipe and found this lovely one on this site. And because they looked so delicious and also claimed to be quiet healthy, I fetched all the ingredients and made them! The amazing thing is that they only take about 20 minutes to do and taste absolutely amazing. Not too sweet and not too healthy! So here we go.

Ingredients

makes 12

• 1 cup nonfat or low fat milk, dairy or nondairy
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 cup all purpose flour –OR- whole wheat pastry flour
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Guide:

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F or 175°C.

 

2. In a medium-sized bowl mix up all the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda

 

3. In a small bowl combine the milk and the vinegar.

 

4. Put in a larger bowl sugar, apple sauce and vanilla extract.

 

5. Add the wet ingredients and then slowly the dry ingredients in the larger bowl. Mix it until you get a nicely combined, smooth chocolate-brown dough.

 

6. Fill the dough in a standard 12 cup muffin tin with paper liners and bake them for 16-18 minutes.

 

 

Nutrition for 1 cupcake (unfrosted):

Calories: 108.7, Fat: 0.6g, Cholesterol: 1mg, Sodium: 15.4mg, Carb: 29.7g, Fiber: 1.2g, Sugars: 20.5g, Protein 2.2g

And there you have them. The incredible moist chocolate muffins who can be eaten without any guilt. As if already mentioned above they are not so sweet, so they have a rich chocolate taste without being overpowering with sugar. The best thing is that you won't eat more than ususal, because they don't taste "healthy" and so you're actually thinking that you are eating a 300 calorie muffin :) Of course, you can eat any icing or frosting on top of that.

I hope you like this little baking post and tell me whether you like these healthy options!

Wish you a wonderful day! Love,

LOW-CALORIE Vanilla Yogurt Muffins! Perfect for Weight Loss!

I stumbled upon this amazing recipe that doesn't contain any butter or any other extra calories. Seriously, I didn't believed that it would taste good, but it actually taste absolutely amazing and one muffin has ONLY 90 calories! To this basic muffin recipe you can add any flavour or adds you want, e.g. I decided to add some cherries. So if you want to know how you can bake these tasty low-calorie vanilla yoghurt muffins, then keep on reading.

The Ingredients

 

For 12 muffins:

• 100g sugar
• 1 big egg
• 150g vanilla yogurt
• 150g flour
• 2 tbsp of baking powder
• vanilla flavour

I also added: 2 drops of bitter almond flavour, morello cherries & red food colouring

Topping: sugar glaze with slight lemon taste & edible paper flowers

 

Instruction:

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C.

2. Put the wet and dry ingredients in separate bowls. Add the sugar, egg and yogurt into a larger bowl. 

3. Mix it really well & add the dry ingredients slowly to the rest so that you get a nice dough.

 

4. Add the vanilla flavour or any other flavour that you like and the red food colouring.

 

5. Add the morello cherries and mix them carefully with the dough. I would recommend a cooking spoon.

 

6. Distribute the dough to a muffin baking tin and bake the muffins for 15 minutes at 180°C.

 

7. For the topping I added just some sugar glaze that had a slight lemon flavour and decorated the muffin with some flowers made out of edible paper.

 

And then you have your muffins! I can only say once again that they taste incredible. They are really soft, moisturized and naturally sweet because of the vanilla yoghurt. I seriously can not taste a difference to normal muffins and the muffins are full of juicy cherries because we just mixed them very lightly. However, the best thing is that you can eat them without having a guilty conscience and even during a diet!

Please let me know whether you liked these muffins?

Wish you a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

Tasty Cherry-Amaretto-Muffins with Chocolate Chips!

Today I had to bake a cake or anything like that for our last days in university before vacation starts. So I decided to do muffins because they are a nice portion and can be eaten right out of your hands. In order to create something different and not only the ordinary Chocolate Chip muffins I added cherries and amaretto to them.

Recipe for approx. 8 muffins

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 150g flour
• 70g sugar
• 70g Butter
• 1 package of vanilla sugar
• 1/2 package of baking powder
• 3 EL milk
• 2-3 EL Amaretto
• 1 glass of cherries
• 1 bar of chocolate

Guide

1. Melt the butter in a microwave or in a pa until it is totally liquid. Let it cool down a bit,
2. Separate the yolk from the white and mix the white, so that you have whipped egg whites.
3. Eat the sugar, butter, yolk, flour, vanilla powder, baking powder, milk and amaretto in a bowl and mix it, so that you get a smooth dough.
4. Gently fold the whipped egg whites in the dough.
5. Drain the cherries and gently mix them with the dough.
6. Crush the bar of chocolate e.g. with a rolling pin. The chocolate chips shouldn't be too small and also not too big.
7. Mix the chocolate chips with the dough.
8. Put some paper muffin moulds in your muffin mould and put the dough into it.
9. Bake the muffins at 180° for 30-40 minutes.

And then you are done! I have tested the muffins and they taste absolutely amazing! They are definitely something different and not the muffins that everyone is expecting. 

Do you like muffins or do you prefer cakes?

All the best,