Best Ever Carrot Cake Cupcakes Recipes

BEST EVER CARROT CAKE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare muffin tins with paper liners (enough for about 28 cupcakes)
• Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and salt to a large bowl and mix them together with a whisk until combined.
• Whisk the shredded carrots into the dry ingredients.
• In a large liquid measuring cup (a 4-cup measuring cup if you have it, otherwise use a bowl), measure the oil and the buttermilk, and then add the eggs whisking everything together well.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and whisk everything together until no streaks of flour appear and everything is combined.
• Divide the batter between the prepared muffin cups lined with paper liners, filling them only about 2/3 full.
• Bake them at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 19-21 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into one of the cupcakes comes out clean. After baking, set the cupcake pans on a wire rack and cool them completely to room temperature.
• In a large bowl, mix together the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer (use a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment if you have one).
• Mix in the powdered sugar one cup at a time, mixing well and scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition.
• Add the vanilla extract and cream, and whip on high speed for about 5 minutes, or until the frosting is light and fluffy.
• Mix together the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and set aside.
• When the cupcakes have cooled completely, remove them from their tins and add the frosting to a piping bag fitted with a start tip (or your choice of piping tip).
• Frost the cooled cupcakes in a swirl motion and top them with a dusting of the cinnamon sugar.
• Serve immediately, or store in the fridge in an airtight container until ready to serve.

CARROT CAKE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Combine 2 cups flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into sugar mixture until blended. Stir in carrots and pineapple. Toss the raisins with the remaining flour until coated; fold into batter., Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar and milk; beat until smooth. Frost cupcakes. Refrigerate leftovers.

BEST CARROT CAKE EVER

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine grated carrots and brown sugar. Set aside for 60 minutes, then stir in raisins.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 10 inch cake pans.
• In a large bowl, beat eggs until light. Gradually beat in the white sugar, oil and vanilla. Stir in the pineapple. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, stir into the wet mixture until absorbed. Finally stir in the carrot mixture and the walnuts. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
• Bake for 45 to 50 minutes in the preheated oven, until cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan. When completely cooled, frost with cream cheese frosting.

CARROT CAKE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Beat the sugar, oil, and vanilla together in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Add the eggs, 1 at a time. In another bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer on low speed, add 1/2 of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Add the grated carrots, raisins, and walnuts to the remaining flour, mix well, and add to the batter. Mix until just combined.
• Line muffin pans with paper liners. Scoop the batter into 22 muffin cups until each is 3/4 full. Bake for 10 minutes then reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F and cook for a further 30 to 35 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a rack.
• For the frosting, cream the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Add the sugar and beat until smooth.
• When the cupcakes are cool, frost them generously and serve.