Whole Wheat Carrot Cake Muffins-Dehydrated Carrot Food Storage Recipes
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Ingredients:
2 c. brown sugar, packed
1 c. oil
3 eggs (3 T. Dehydrated Eggs + 1/3 c. water…if you want a really fun trick use your left over carrot or raisin water to add to the egg powder.)
2 c. carrots, finely grated (1c. dehydrated carrots. Pulse in blender before re-hydrating to make them smaller pieces. They take 20 minutes in cold water to rehydrate so if you need them sooner, simply put them in warmer water.)
1 c. crushed pineapple, drained (If you have orange juice you’ll be serving, drain the pineapple juice into your orange juice for a fun topical blend orange juice.)
3 c. whole wheat flour
1 t. salt
1 T. soda
1 t. cinnamon
2 t. vanilla
1 c. raisins
1 c. walnuts, broken
Method:
Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour 2 bread pans, 1 Bundt pan, or 2 muffin pans (12 each) with vegetable cooking spray. Beat together brown sugar, oil and eggs (no need to reconstitute eggs before adding to this mix). Stir in carrots and pineapple. Blend together dry ingredients; stir into batter thoroughly. Add vanilla, raisins, and nuts. Pour into prepared pan. Bake bread pans for 40-45 minutes, muffins for 20 minutes, and Bundt pan 1 hour or until done.
Makes 1 Bundt pan, 2 bread pans, or 24 muffins.
Adding the nuts on top of the muffins not only gives it a great look and flavor (it lightly toasts the nuts) but it is also a great way to serve nut lovers and non-nut lovers alike since it becomes obvious which have nuts and which don’t.
FHE Tidbit: 72 Hour Kits and Food Storage Treat Recipe
Okay, I have this feeling that most of you (at least if you’re female) feel entirely overwhelmed with everything you have to do in the day what with taking kids to school, laundry (YUCK!), preparing meals, soccer practice, and on top of it all spending time together as a family….oh yeah and that HUGE project of getting prepared. Well, you all probably know by now that I’m a HUGE fan of multi-tasking so I figured why couldn’t you make getting prepared a family event?! I asked my good friends at www.foodstoragemadeeasy.net to help me (since they have all the WONDERFUL information on getting your food storage gathered and basic emergency preparedness) with some Family Home Evening Tidbits. They are quick ideas that will help you on the road to becoming prepared! At the end there is also a treat you can make using your food storage. So all in a night, you’ll have spent time together as a family, taken a step towards being prepared, and practiced using your food storage! AWESOME!
This week I thought “Milk Jug 72 hour kits” would be fun and easy to get people prepared…here is what Jodi from www.foodstoragemadeeasy.net has to say about it:
What a great treat for talking about 72 hour kits! This recipe comes entirely from shelf stable items and happens to be my all time favorite cookie recipe (HONEST!)
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
*a tip before you begin…I always soak my raisins in water & vanilla so that the raisins are plump and juicy and taste like vanilla. If you don’t have a lot of time you can heat the water, vanilla, and raisins in the microwave for 2 minutes. Remember that you can definitely use your leftover water to hydrate your eggs!
Cream together:
1 C shortening
1 C brown sugar
1 C white sugar
2 eggs (2 T. dry egg powder + 1/4 C. Water)
1 tsp. vanilla
Stir into creamed mixture
1 ½ C whole wheat flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
3 C. oats
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 C. raisins
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls and bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.
Fanatic Friday Contestant-Rice Pudding w/ Apples & Cinnamon: Food Storage Recipes
What a fun twist on rice pudding and maybe something different for those that don’t like pumpkin pie. Personally, rice pudding is one of my favorite desserts! Thanks, Robin for sending this in!
Rice Pudding with Apples and Cinnamon
Serves 4
I make this in my pressure cooker – it is easy, fast and yummy.
1 T. butter
1/4 cup long grain rice *
2 cups milk *
1 cup water
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg *
1/4 cup evaporated milk *
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Cinnamon
Melt the butter, add rice and stir to coat with butter. Stir in your water (3 cups) and dry milk (6 T. for non instant, 2/3 cup for instant) add sugar and salt. Close lid and bring to pressure, cook 12 minutes at pressure. Remove from heat, allow pressure to come down on it’s own.
In a small bowl, mix together your egg (you can use your powdered eggs) and the evaporated milk (you can make your own) and vanilla. Stir a little of the hot liquid from you cooker into the egg mix (tempering the eggs), then add to the rice mixture.
Cook, uncovered, over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until the rice pudding begins to bubble. Remove immediately from heat. Cool 10 min. stirring occasionally. Transfer to individual dessert bowls, continue cooling, then refrigerate. Serve sprinkled with cinnamon or you can top with a spoon (or two) of the Apple Cranberry Cinnamon Topping below.
Apple Cranberry Cinnamon Topping:
3 – 4 Apples * (Equivalent of 3 – 4 apples set to hydrate) peeled, chopped
1/4 cup Dried Cranberries *
2 T. sugar (or to taste)
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
dash cloves
water, about half way up apples
Cook apples and cranberries until tender. Mix 1 rounded teaspoon corn starch* with a little cold water and add to cooked apples; continue to cook until thickened (2 minutes) stir in cinnamon and cloves.
* Food Storage Item
Although I have used the (*) for food storage items all of these items would be in your food storage but the fresh butter
Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin Pie
Don’t let your carved pumpkin go to waste! You can actually cook it up and use it for your Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pies. This is what my mom did when I was growing up and it makes even more sense since the pumpkins were so expensive this year (did anyone else notice?) My favorite part of the idea of being self reliant is you don’t waste anything. This recipe is DELICIOUS (I have pictures to prove it…including a picture of me when I was 3 having taken a bite and sometimes half the pie out of all 13 pies my mom had made…uh….we have large Thanksgiving dinners, if you couldn’t tell 
Here are the directions, straight from my mom…
Cooking your Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin:
Wash and cut up Jack-O-Lanterns into 4-5 inch square pieces. Pressure cook in 1 C. water for 10-12 minutes. (If you don’t have a pressure cooker, see the NOTE:)You will not need to add any more water with the next batches since they seem to “grow”water. Drain, scoop out of peeling, and blend in blender until smooth. (I freeze in 7 C. packages which make 2 pies.) This pumpkin is wetter than canned pumpkin it needs to have liquids cut down in regular pumpkin recipes. (I use extra pumpkin in place of the liquid called for.) Or it can be used in exact measurements with any apple sauce recipe.
NOTE: If you don’t have a pressure cooker, simmer in covered pan for 30-45 minutes or until soft and tender.
Jack-O-Lantern Pie
3 1/2 C. Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin
3/4 C. sugar
1/2 t. salt
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
1 t. ginger
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. cloves
3 eggs (or 3 T. dry egg powder + 1/3 c. water)
1 C. dry non-instant milk
1 9-10 inch pie shell with edges crimped high-filling is generous
Thoroughly combine all of the above. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake at 400 for 50 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and outside comes out clean. Cool.
Want to learn more about the specifics of an electric pressure cooker? Click HERE.
