{"id":10941,"date":"2021-02-08T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/uncategorized\/strawberry-banana-overnight-chia-oats-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:27:35","slug":"apple-carrot-cake-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/recipe\/winter-2021-recipe\/apple-carrot-cake-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Carrot Cake Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"back-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/?p=10738&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Food Article<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10943\" style=\"width: 703px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10943\" class=\"wp-image-10943 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Apple-Carrot-Cake-Muffins.700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Apple-Carrot-Cake-Muffins.700.jpg 693w, https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Apple-Carrot-Cake-Muffins.700-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple Carrot Cake Muffins. Photo: Jana Cristofano<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"recipe-card\"><\/p>\n<h3>Apple Carrot Cake Muffins<\/h3>\n<p class=\"servings\">Makes 12 servings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 tablespoons golden flaxseed meal<\/li>\n<li>2 cups almond meal<\/li>\n<li>1 cup gluten-free rolled oats<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup arrowroot<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup coconut sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon ground ginger<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 teaspoon baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon finely ground sea salt<\/li>\n<li>1 large extra-ripe banana, mashed, about 1\/2 cup<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1 large apple, peeled, cored, and diced into 1\/4-inch cubes, about 1 cup<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup grated carrot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0F. Lightly grease or line a muffin tin with paper liners.<\/p>\n<p>In a small bowl, stir or whisk together the golden flaxseed meal and plant-based milk. Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>In a medium or large mixing bowl, stir or whisk together the almond meal, gluten-free oats, arrowroot, coconut sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, baking soda, and sea salt.<\/p>\n<p>Add the mashed banana, vanilla, and apple cider vinegar to the flax egg and whisk together.<\/p>\n<p>Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine well with a wooden spoon. This may take a minute or two as the batter is very dense. Gently stir in the apple and carrot. If the batter is too thick to combine, add 1 to 2 tablespoons of plant-based milk to loosen.<\/p>\n<p>Using a standard ice cream scoop or a spoon, place about 1\/4 cup of batter in each muffin cup. Since the batter is thick, you will need to press it down into the muffin cups with your fingers or the back of a spoon. Bake for approximately 25 minutes, until the muffins begin to show brownish peaks, and a toothpick inserted comes out clean.<\/p>\n<p>Remove the muffin tin from the oven and cool the muffins in the tin for 15 minutes, then remove from the tin and place on a cooling rack. They will keep for 1 week in an airtight container in the refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p class=\"author-credit\">Reprinted from Eat Well, Be Well \u00a9 2020 by Jana Cristofano, with permission from Sterling Epicure, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"back-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/?p=10738&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Food Article<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View recipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2021-recipe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10942,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions\/10942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}