This week’s cupcake is a healthy one with carrots, apple, nuts, coconut and raisins. So no guilty feelings for stuffing yourself with these delicious cupcakes
I used only half (125g) sugar, but I think they would taste better with a little bit more.

ingredients (for about 18 cupcakes)
250 g all-purpose flour
250 g cane sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
220 g shredded carrots (2 medium sized carrots)
70 g raisins
60 g chopped walnuts
45 g unsweetened flaked coconut
1 apple – peeled, cored and shredded
3 eggs
120 ml vegetable oil
120 ml unsweetened apple sauce (very easy to make yourself by peeling, coring and cutting an apple in small pieces, add 60 ml water and heat up in a saucepan until the apple gets soft, then blend it, let it cool before using in this recipe)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 175 °C.
Grease 18 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in the carrot, raisins, nuts, coconut, and apple.
In a separate bowl, beat together eggs, apple sauce, oil, and vanilla. Stir egg mixture into the carrot/flour mixture, just until moistened. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups.
Bake in preheated oven for 23 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.




ingredienten (voor ongeveer 18 cupcakes)
250 g tarwe bloem
250 g ruwe rietsuiker
2 theelepels bicarbonaat
2 theelepels kaneel
1/4 theelepel zout
220 g geraspte wortelen (2 medium grootte wortelen)
70 g rozijnen
60 g walnoten, in stukjes gehakt
45 g ongezoete gedroogde kokosnoot
1 appel, geschild, klokhuis verwijderd en geraspt
3 eieren
120 ml plantaardige olie
120 ml ongezoete appelcompot (kan je heel gemakkelijk zelf maken door een appel, geschild en in stukjes gesneden te koken in 60 ml water tot de appel zacht wordt, pureer ‘t en laat afkoelen alvorens ‘t te gebruiken in dit recept)
2 theelepels vanille extract

Verwarm de oven voor op 175°C.Vet 18 cupcake vormpjes in of leg papieren vormpjes in de bakvorm.

Meng in een grote kom de bloem, suiker, het bicarbonaat, kaneel en zout. Roer de wortelen, rozijnen, kokosnoot en geraspte appel erdoor.
Klop in een andere kom de eieren, de appelcompot, olie en vanille. Roer het eiermengsel doorheen het wortel-bloemmengsel tot een mooi beslag. Lepel het beslag in de cupcake vormpjes.
Bak in de voorverwarmde oven voor 23 minuten, tot een tandenstoker in ‘t midden er droog uitkomt.

It was my birthday a few days ago and it’s turning into a fine little tradition that I treat my colleagues with several self-made pies for my birthday. This year I decided to make a chocolate cake , an extremely delicious strawberry cheese cake (I will post the recipe later) and this great old favorite, an apple galette. It’s very easy to make. This is the recipe (from Delicious magazine):

Ingredients (for 6 persons)
1 roll of ready made puff dough
1 whisked egg
2 green apples, peeled and cut into thin slices
melted butter
honey
a few unsalted pistachio nuts, cut into smal pieces

frangipane
3 Ts unsalted pistachio nuts
3 Ts almond powder
40 g soft, unsalted butter
3 Ts fine sugar
1 egg yolk
1/4 ts vanilla essence

Blend all the ingredients for the frangipane together in a blender.
Preheat the oven at 220°C. Roll out the puff dough and cut it into a rectangle of ca. 22×30cm en 3mm thick. Put the dough on a with parchment paper covered oven tray. Draw a line with a knife at about 1cm from the border without cutting all the way through the dough. Prick some small holes inside the lines with a fork and brush on the egg. Spread out the frangipane on top of the dough (except the border) and cover with the apple slices. Brush some melted butter thinly on the apple slices.
Bake the galette for about 15 minutes at 220°C. Then turn down the temperature to 200°C and drizzle some honey on top of the apple slices. Bake for another 15 minutes until golden brown. Drizzle some more hony and sprinkle some of the pistachio nuts on top.
And to make this already great apple galette even better you could add some vanilla ice cream.