These Apple Carrot Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting are a delightful and nutritious treat for babies and toddlers, featuring a blend of defrosted Nourishing Bubs apple cubes, shredded carrot, and wholemeal flour. Enriched with spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, and topped with a creamy lemon-infused cream cheese frosting, these muffins offer essential nutrients and a delicious flavour profile. The addition of Nourishing Bubs Tree Nut Maintenance Mix ensures allergen exposure for developing taste buds. Perfect for a wholesome snack or breakfast, these muffins support healthy growth and development.
Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins
6
10 minutes
15 minutes
Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting are a wholesome and tasty treat for babies and toddlers, combining nutritious apple and carrot with spices and topped with a creamy lemon frosting, all while supporting allergen exposure with Nourishing Bubs Tree Nut Maintenance Mix.
Ingredients
2x 25g Nourishing Bubs Apple cubes, defrosted
1 egg
½ cup milk
1 carrot, shredded and liquid drained (*press into paper towel)
¾ cup wholemeal flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg
1 tbsp Nourishing Bubs Tree Nut Maintenance Mix
80g cream cheese, softened
Juice of ½ lemon
Directions
Preheat oven to 180° and line a muffin tray.
In a large bowl, mix together the Nourishing Bubs apple cubes, egg, milk and oil.
Fold in the shredded carrot.
Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and Nourishing Bubs Tree Nut Maintenance Mix, and mix until just combined.
Scoop batter into prepared muffin tins, filling about 3/4 of the way. Bake for 15-18 mins until muffins are golden brown and spring back to the touch
Remove the muffins from the oven and let them cool completely.
To make the cream cheese frosting, stir the lemon juice through the softened cream cheese until soft and spreadable. Spread over each muffin and top with a sprinkle of Nourishing Bubs Tree Nut Maintenance Mix (optional).