These healthy carrot muffins are easy to make, moist, and flavorful. My husband, son, and I love them for an easy breakfast or snack. They just happen to be gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free, and paleo!
I adore muffins, and my friend Shirley is mad about them. That’s why she has an event called March Muffin Madness! Each day of the event she is linking to a blogger (like me!) who is sharing a muffin recipe on their blog. Lots of gluten-free muffin recipes is great by itself, BUT she ALSO has some fantastic prizes lined up as part of this event. See more information about them below.
Healthy Carrot Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup almond flour
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon allspice
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana (about 1 medium)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease a 12 cup muffin tin or line with paper liners. (If using liners, the muffins must be completely cooled before eating or they will stick to the liner.)
- In a small bowl combine the almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and allspice.
- In your mixer bowl, beat together the eggs, honey, banana, and vanilla, about 1 minute.
- Add the carrot and mix to incorporate.
- With the mixer on low, slowly add the dry ingredients and mix until moistened. Stir in the chopped walnuts.
- Spoon into prepared muffin tin and bake at 350° about 20 minutes or until done in the center.
March Muffin Madness
Enter the grand prize giveaway via Rafflecopter below. The giveaway includes so many terrific prizes, such as:
- ½ gallon of Hidden Springs Vermont organic maple syrup
- 5-lb bag of Honeyville almond flour
- Cuisinart ice cream maker
- Paderno World Cuisine vegetable slicer/spiralizer
- Crockpot casserole slow cooker
- Instant Pot pressure cooker
- and more!
Grand Prize: You’re going to love this grand prize, which is sponsored by Blendtec! It’s a BlendtecDesigner 625 with Wildside+ and Twister jars. Yes, one of those much loved high-spend blenders/all-in-one
Also, head over to Gluten Free Easily and enter the giveaway for the daily prizes. There’s a new giveaway every single day during MMM! These giveaways include terrific cookbooks, resource books, subscriptions, and meal plans—ones that have probably been on your “wish list” for a while. Today’s daily prize is my eBook, How to Be Gluten Free.
There will be over 75 winners in March Muffin Madness, so be sure to enter both the grand prize giveaway and daily giveaway each day so you can be sure that you will be one of the winners!
What a great idea to combine carrots and bananas! They look lovely and I know I will make them very soon! Added bonus – they are very healthy and look diabetes safe!
The muffins sound delicious and healthy.
That sounds amazing. I love carrot muffins and can’t wait to try out the recipe. These sound moist and perfect 🙂
These look delicious! Can’t wait to try them. 🙂
I just made them – well, uhm I made the dough as to your recipe and then saw that my muffin tins had disappeared – my almost sacred muffin tins! Must have been the muffin grinch!
However, I just divided the batter into 3 small parts and baked in very small loaf pans – it was completely delicious! Just had to bake a little longer!
Thanks for a winning recipe!
(PS: I put a picture of it on Shirley’s FB site 😉 )
I’m glad you made it work for you, and I hope you find those muffin tins!
This recipe is next on my must-make list. Thanks for sharing a delicious and healthy muffin recipe!
Looks delicious
never used a vegetable slicer would make prep work so much easier
I love the recipes. I have recently gone gluten free and your poss have helped me tremendously! Thank you! And thank you for letting everyone know about the sweepstakes!
Hi, if I want to share with a diabetic family member, can I reduce the honey and have the muffins still come out ok? How much could I reduce the honey do you think?
Vanessa, I really can’t say without trying it. Reducing the honey will affect the moisture level. You might need to add a little more banana or some oil.
The muffin recipe looks delicious and definitely worth a try.
These muffins look awesome. I’m going into my kitchen right now to make them!
Love the recipe. Will make them this week. Thanks for sharing.
These look delicious! Will be trying this soon.
The casserole slow cooker is really interesting! I’ve never seen that before. And the maple syrup looks delicious…one of my absolute favorite sweeteners.
The casserole slow cooker is really interesting! I’ve never seen that before. And the maple syrup looks delicious…one of my absolute favorite sweeteners. I love that it’s natural (and delicious).
I am SO disappointed that these contain tree nuts. SO many recipes I can’t make!
Look good!
The muffins look amazing, recipe is very simple. Will be warming my cabin with the smell of muffins. Will go great with the snow storm today. Now if I just had an Instant pot cooker for the main course, I’d be set!
I would love to have one of the InstaPot’s – my Grandma has one and it’s great
I never thought to make carrot cake muffins, but this recipe looks great. Can’t wait to try it!
What a great prize pack, I especially love the spiralizer, I have a small one and would like to do more cooking with a better one. I also really like the Cuisinart ice cream maker, I love a good frozen treat but I would rather make it myself so that I know what is going into it.
These look absolutely yummy and healthy!
These are absolutely delicious! They stay nice and moist for several days. We took them on a trip and they were perfect for a snack. Thank you!!
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for letting me know.
Hi Linda–Belated, but heartfelt thanks to you for both participating in and sponsoring March Muffin Madness this year–with this delicious recipe and your excellent ebook, How To Be Gluten Free! I have stocked up on carrots and have ripe bananas on the counter, so I’m ready to make your muffins. 🙂 It’s terrific to see that several MMM readers have already made them and enjoyed them!
Thanks again!
Shirley
Good tasting healthy muffins are hard to come across. These look delicious
I made your healthy carrot muffins today. Delicious!!! I want to cook Paleo because I have so many health issues. Could you give me the amount of calories in these muffins? BTW, my husband loved these! Thank you.
Dianne, I don’t have that information. You can search online. I think there are some sites that can figure out nutritional information for you.