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Inside Out Carrot Cake Muffins

These carrot cake muffins are a delicious treat, perfect for an Easter breakfast or anytime you have extra carrots you'd like to use up! And with the cream cheese filling, you can't go wrong. 

Course Breakfast, Muffins, Snack
Cuisine American
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 22 minutes
Cooling Time 20 minutes
Total Time 47 minutes
Servings 14 muffins (I know, I'm sorry)
Author Janssen Bradshaw

Ingredients

Cream Cheese Filling:

  • 6 oz softened cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Muffin Batter:

  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1/3 cup coconut oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup shredded coconut
  • 4 carrots finely grated
  • Coarse or regular sugar granulated for sprinkling

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line muffin tins with paper liners or grease. Set aside.

  2. In a small bowl, whisk together the cream cheese, granulated sugar, and vanilla extract until smooth. Set aside.
  3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the eggs, water, oil, and vanilla together until smooth. Add the flour, both sugars, baking powder, soda, spices, and salt, and stir until just barely combined. Quickly fold in the carrots and coconut.
  4. Fill the muffin tins 1/3 full with batter, then divide the cream cheese filling between the muffins cups (try to keep it from touching the sides of the muffin tins. Then put an additional scoop of batter on top of the filling to cover the cream cheese. Tins should be about 3/4s full.
  5. Sprinkle with coarse sugar and bake for 22-25 minutes, until the tops are browned and spring back when you press gently on the top.
  6. Let cool for about 20 minutes before serving.

Recipe Notes

(adapted from King Arthur's Flour)