Little Muffins of FUN!!!

It is time to make some snacks and today the eldest child is making some great “CARROT CAKE MUFFINS”

I don’t know if you are in, but I sure as hell am coming to lunch……

So what’s in the mix……

1/2 cup brown sugar – pack this baby tight for the journey.
1 cup coarsely grated carrot – just like you do for tacos.
1 FRESH egg – straight from the chicken’s butt…
1/3 cup of butter- I use softened when cooking with kids.
1/3 cup apricots- just the stuff you get prechopped at the store is cool.
3/4 cup SRF (self-raising Flour) – the best you can get to make the little beauties “soft and fluffy”
1/2 tsp mixed spice- grabbed from the good old spice section at your local.
1 tbsp PEPITAS – get your knife out and chop, chop, chop these to nice and diced.
You can add walnuts here 1 TBSP – I didn’t have them so omitted them this time…

Yeah, alright, so preheat the oven first before we start plunging into the mixing of these wonderful ingredients…

Preheat oven to 180 degrees (Aussie Style).
Get your paddy cases ready and line those 12 holes in your muffin tray.
Toss the butter, sugar, and egg together and whip it, whip it real good.
- Make sure when you whip that baby it becomes thick, creamy, and whitish in color.
Add the carrot & Apricots (nuts if you are using them) and the wonderfully sifted flour ( 3 x sifted is AMAZING) and spices.
STOP, you aren’t whipping,, are you???? FOLD, FOLD, FOLD… get that practice in for all the clothes you have to teach your kids to fold.
Place them into the patty cases that you already prepped and pop them in the oven for 20 minutes
Let the baby rest for an extra 5 minutes once out of the oven SSHHHHHH

Make them SMILE with lemon cream cheese frosting—–

90g of cream cheese – yeah, I use Philly, but any you love is AWESOME…
30g unsalted butter… makeup needs to be creamy.
1 tsp lemon rind – make this super fine, or just add a squeeze of a lemon squeeze if you don’t have lemons around..
1-1/2 cups of icing sugar – you could go and buy this if you want OR you could just grab a cup of sugar and toss it in your smoothie grinder and make your own… your choice.
Once the baby has rested and cooled down, you can pipe their makeup on to make them ready for their day out…

I didn’t have my piping bag, so we just grab big dollops and plopped them on, and looked after them “IN OUR BELLIES”

Hope you enjoy making these….

HAPPY COOKING