Carrot top-of-the-morning 
 
May 23, 2009 7:56 am 
Updated: May 24, 2009 6:23 am
It had been too long since I tried a new muffin recipe, but today I finally got the nerve to try something new.

I had several leftover carrots which I was probably going to take to my mom's house, along with leftover celery, zucchini and cabbage, but I decided to first try looking for a carrot muffin recipe. I found one, in the Ultimate Muffin Book gifted to me by Cindy Lepp.

It called for two cups of grated carrots, and the first thing I did this morning was to see if I had enough. I grated up one of the two carrots I had on hand, and it was almost exactly one cup, so instead of halving the recipe I was able to make the entire thing.

The recipe did not call for a lot of sugar (2 tablespoons granulated sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar) so I wasn't sure how that would affect the muffins. After about 15 minutes in a 400-degree oven, they came out and smelled wonderful. Excellent aroma.

As for the taste? They aren't very sweet as I had imagined and the carrot flavor is definitely prominent. It's a great-tasting muffin though, something I'd be happy to try again. And next time, I'd like to have a full muffin and an entire cup of coffee. Had to do a hit-and-run since I'm headed for a run soon.
 
 
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katie_luvs2bake! Supporting Member (Click to learn more about Supporting Membership)
May 23, 2009 5:36 pm
yumm those sound good. I love carrot anything!.. Here in chile carrot cake is not well known, so when i made it for my cousin she said "Ewwwwwwww" and when she tasted it she was sooo impressed with the flavor! of course she was even more impressed with the cream cheese frosting!
 
Booschmoo Supporting Member (Click to learn more about Supporting Membership)
May 24, 2009 6:23 am
I love carrot anything, too! Especially if it has some cinnamon and nutmeg in it, then it's just dangerous to leave me alone with them!
 
 
 

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My mom was a master chef... okay, she was a stay-at-home mom but her food was magnificent and nothing will ever top that for me. But I got so used to her cooking that when I branched out on my own I knew how to make nothing. It's taken me quite some time to realize that I love to cook and to create edible dishes. I've been married for nine-plus years and have just recently dived head-first into cooking. So far, so good! And if you need any tips (not that I'd have much to offer) you can e-mail me at lbueno99 at hotmail dot com.
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Around September or October of 2007, I had little interest in cooking and baking. This has since changed. Literally overnight I became interested in making my own food and my wife's been loving life ever since. I'd like to say that I've grown a liking to trying new things but almost everything I cook is new to me. I like to try chicken recipes and add ingredients I either have never tasted (sun-dried tomatoes) or have rarely used before (balsamic vinegar). And I owe it all to allrecipes.com!
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After I got settled into cooking/baking, I wanted to start a new family tradition. It seemed strange to just up and start one but all traditions have a starting point, right? So in August of 2008, I decided that I wanted to build Saturday mornings around muffins. I wanted to start a tradition of making muffins every Saturday mornings so my girls (then 4 and 2) would grow up with thoughts of warm homemade muffins every Saturday instead of cartoons and/or cinnamon rolls. With the help and support of the wonderful cooks on All Recipes, I forged the new tradition and have made muffins every Saturday without fail since the final weekend of August '08. My favorite muffins... well, there have been many successes and will be many more triumphs in the months and years to follow so you'll just have to keep up with all the good and the bad on my All Recipes blog.
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Christmas 2007! We had my parents, three brothers (two of whom brought girlfriends) over for a Christmas breakfast. My wife and I prepared dilligently. We made a sausage skillet and Farmer's Casserole for our dual main dishes, had bacon, rolls and Sarah's Applesauce on the side, had standard hot chocolate and Hot Spiced Cider for drinks and Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread, Raspberry Crumb Cake, Molasses Sugar Cookies and regular sugar cookies with Decorator Frosting for desserts and everything went fast! All the items in CAPS we got from right here at allrecipes.com.
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Let's hope this is the worst of it, but I tried to make pepperoni bread from here on this site and I botched it. The dough kicked my butt. shame too because it looked so good. And then more recently, I forgot to put milk in some French toast I was trying to make. That was a disaster.
 
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