Welcome to a brand new week full of brand new opportunities! Let me be real honest with you, I did NOT wake up this morning with this opportunistic attitude. Nope. My day started at 3:45am with baby girl fussing in her crib. She has been sleeping through the night for the last month so I did not want to intervene to help her back to sleep so I left her to fall back to asleep on her own. Which she did… after an entire hour…. I was not able to go back to sleep knowing my alarm clock was going to go off shortly so I had quite the early morning. I was immediately put into a piss poor attitude and already had the mindset that it was going to be a horrible day. As I went about my morning and small things kept going wrong I was even more sure it was going to be a horrible day.
Then, I had a mindset switch. One of my nutrition clients said something very sweet and nice about me and it completely lifted my spirits. It made me realize that I am human, shit happens, but life must go on. This client didn’t have to say these things about me, but she chose too and it completely turned my day around. This got me thinking that we need to compliment more and be kind and encourage others as much as possible. You never know what is going on in someone’s life, but if you show them kindness, you just might turn their entire day or even week around.
Working on our own minds and doing everything we can to be positive and have a healthy mindset takes work and effort. Sometimes we need that nudge or encouragement from others and that is okay. We all need people in our lives that inspire us to be better, someone we can talk to about anything and those people that lift us up when we can’t handle all of our own heavy lifting. Be your own cheerleader as much as often, but remember to be other’s cheerleader too. You never know whose day you will make better by simply complimenting them or showing them kindness.
What does all of this have to do with these muffins? Nothing at all. Unless, you want to bake a batch and give them to someone you know is in need of some loving! These muffins turned out absolutely perfectly and I am already planning on making them for my family Easter celebration. Carrot cake in the spring is like pumpkin spice in the fall. You see it everywhere! So of course I had to contribute!
- 1 cup cassava flour
- 2 medium carrots, peeled and grated
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup peanut butter or almond butter
- ¼ cup + 2 tbsp cashew milk or other nut milk
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- ½ cup raisins
- ¼ cup enjoy life mini chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease or line a muffin tin with 10 muffin liners.
- In a large bowl add cassava flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder and salt and sift together. Add the eggs, peanut butter, milk, honey and vanilla extract and mix until fully combined. Fold in the carrots, raisins and chocolate chips.
- Add batter the muffin tin and place in oven for 20 minutes.
- Let cool and enjoy!