These bakery style carrot cake muffins are unbelievably soft, moist, and fluffy. The recipe makes such a delicious healthy breakfast or snack!

Healthy carrot cake muffins

Whether served for breakfast or an afternoon healthy snack, this easy carrot cake muffin recipe is a delight to all who taste them.

Your entire family will love the fluffy texture and sweet cinnamon carrot cake flavor. And the low calorie muffins are packed with nutrition at the same time.

Leftovers freeze well too. So you can always have one on hand whenever you are craving homemade frosted carrot cake, in the convenient form of a muffin!

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Carrot muffin flavors

Pineapple: Replace the applesauce in the recipe below with an equal amount of drained crushed pineapple.
Chocolate Chip: Stir half a cup of mini chocolate chips in with the dry ingredients.

Carrot Raisin Muffins: Include the optional half cup raisins in the recipe. Or swap them for an equal amount of diced dried cranberries, dates, or figs.

Banana Bread: Use ripe mashed banana instead of applesauce.

Zucchini: Substitute up to half the shredded carrot with shredded zucchini instead.

Apple Pie: Add a fourth cup finely diced apples along with the wet ingredients, and increase the cinnamon to one and a half teaspoons. Omit the two tablespoons water.

Sour Cream: Instead of yogurt or applesauce, use regular or dairy free sour cream.

Blueberry: Proceed with the re...