Carrot Cake Muffins

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These Carrot Cake Muffins are light on calories, but still moist and delicious.  They’re packed with rum soaked raisins, freshly ground spices, and sweet carrots.  Perfect for a Mother’s Day brunch.

This post is sponsored in conjunction with #BrunchWeek. I received product samples from sponsor companies to aid in the creation of the #Brunchweek recipes. All opinions are mine alone.

 

I can’t believe it’s time for #BrunchWeek again!  It seems like time has flown since last year’s event.  If you’re not sure what #BrunchWeek is then let me explain it to ya!  It’s a group of bloggers who have gotten together to share brunch worthy recipes the week before Mother’s Day.

 

It’s hosted by Terri from Love and Confections and myself.  I only do part of the work.  The grunt stuff just to pitch in and help Terri out.  It’s A LOT of work to manage events like this so if I can help in any way, I do.  I update HTML code, which is that list of all the recipes at the end of everyone’s posts.

 

 

And this year I’m going to help gather social media stats for the sponsors.  I mean, it has to be worth their while to send bloggers products to cook with and to offer up some for a giveaway.  The metrics of it, if you will.  That’s the part I really want to learn about; the metrics of an event and the social reach of the event.

 

Anyway, I think this is the third year I’ve participated in #BrunchWeek?  Let me check…Yes!  I started participating in 2016.  I’m not sure how long the event has been running but I’m always happy to work with Terri every year on this fun event.

 

 

I’m still not quite sure why Mother’s Day is synonymous with brunch besides the fact that women of the family are typically the cooks.  Since this is Mother’s Day, it’s a way to give Mom a break from the kitchen.  I don’t buy that, but whatever works, I guess.  I just love all the food associated with brunch.

 

You can have roast beef and waffles like my same-day mock liege waffles.  There’s pastries and sweets galore like these cute acorn donut holes.  And don’t forget the mimosas or bloody Mary’s!  I mean, what other holiday, outside of St. Patrick’s Day, can you drink before 11am? I can’t think of any, at least not in this country.

 

 

Then there’s dishes like eggs benedict and crepes that most wouldn’t even attempt to make at home.  I have made both.  But I haven’t tried Swedish cardamom buns which are on my must try list.  I love cardamom and I’m Swedish. 

Of course there’s the biscuits and gravy, which I turned into a biscuits and gravy bubble up I made with turkey sausage, mind you!  It was delicious and easy on the hips.  There’s no reason why brunch food has to be full of calories and fat.  It can be delicious and healthy like this blueberry baked oatmeal.  You can easily cook a delicious brunch at home for mom. 

 

 

Take these carrot cake muffins for instance.  There’s very little oil in them.  I didn’t use oil at all.  I used butter spray, but that’s because we eat a low fat in order to keep the hubs’ cholesterol and triglycerides down.  That’s insanely high so I try to cut the fat as much as I can for his health.

 

Anyway, these carrot cake muffins are super moist and delicious.  They have healthy Greek yogurt in them.  You can easily cut the sugar for less sweet muffin or use Dixie Crystal stevia product.  They have 1 1/2 cups of delicious shredded Cal-Organic Farms rainbow carrots in them.

 

 

Seriously, how fun do those carrots look?  I love the rainbow carrot blend.  All your carrot recipes are instantly more fun!  I bet you’d get your kids to eat their carrots if you served these up for dinner.  Roasted, sautéed, in salad; you name it!

 

You can see all that color in the muffins, too.  Even the hubs said they were good!  I said, “Well, I could leave them here for you!”  He said not all of them because, well, he’s not a huge fan of baked goods more than 2 days after they’ve been baked.  I, on the hand, have no problem devouring them!

 

 

See what I mean?  There’s flecks of the purple, yellow, and orange in there.  And it’s chunky!  So, you know it’s packed with delicious goodness.  These muffins are perfect for Mother’s Day Brunch!  She can eat them without any guilt!  Perfect Mother’s Day gift.

 

What’s your first stop on the brunch buffet?  Or your favorite off the menu item for brunch?