ISO Carrot or Mocha Muffins Recipe - limited ingredients

ra_mom

Sun, Apr 02 2023, 5:47 pm

It's fine to skip the cinnamon, vanilla, zest.
Make into muffins.
https://www.thepeppermillinc.c.....cake/

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7 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp sugar
½ tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
zest of 1 lemon, optional
juice of 1 lemon
5 large carrots, peeled and grated (about 2 1/2 cups grated)
1 ½ cups finely-ground hazelnuts (filberts) or almonds
1
Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 10" springform pan with oil.

2
Separate 5 of the eggs into yolks and whites. Set aside the whites.

3
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the 5 eggs yolks with the 2 remaining whole eggs.

4
Add 1 cup of the sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, lemon zest if using and lemon juice. Mix until combined. Stir in the carrots and ground nuts.

5
In a clean bowl and using a clean whisk attachment, beat the 5 egg whites to soft peaks. Add remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar and continue whipping until stiff peaks form.

6
Gently fold the egg whites into the carrot batter, a little at a time.

7
Pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for 50 Minutes, until a cake tester inserted at the center of the cake comes out clean.

8
Allow to cool for at least 1 hour before removing from the pan. This cake can be made ahead and freezes well.

I think you can make this with a bit of instant coffee granules ground up instead of the cinnamon.
https://www.kosher.com/recipe/.....-5532

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2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup orange juice (I used freshly squeezed)
2 cups Gefen Almond Flour
1 cup Gefen Potato Starch
2 teaspoons Gefen Vanilla (optional)
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon, combined

Topping

1/4 cup Gefen Almond Flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup Gefen Potato Starch
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon oil

thornyrose

Sun, Apr 02 2023, 8:49 pm

ra_mom wrote:

It's fine to skip the cinnamon, vanilla, zest.
Make into muffins.
https://www.thepeppermillinc.c.....cake/

Last year's Monsey View had pretty much this recipe without the vanilla & zest.
Directions were:
1. Beat egg whites with 2 tbps sugar until stiff.
2. Fold in rest of the ing. and combine well by hand.
3. Pour into muffin cups, and bake at 350 for 35 minutes or until set.

I made them with the cinnamon, and they were delicious, but I imagine you can skip it without missing it much.

pause

Mon, Apr 03 2023, 11:01 pm

We made both recipes today. The first recipe, we tweaked a bit: instead of adding a cinnamon/sugar mixture in between layers of batter, we just added one TB of coffee (diluted in a tiny bit of hot water) to the batter and mixed it in. In the topping, we subbed a pinch of coffee for cinnamon. They came out DELICIOUS!!! Perfect for a morning coffee...

The second recipe is good, but somehow very carrot-y. The carrots didn't get as soft as they do in a typical carrot cake. I followed the instructions thornyrose posted because it was much simpler to follow than the original, but we did bake it for the full 50 minutes as stated in the original.