Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Deliciously moreish carrot cake cupcakes with yummy cream cheese frosting!
Ingredients
Ingredients for the cupcakes
- 200 g Soft Light Brown Sugar (7oz)
- 200 g Plain Flour (7oz)
- 200 ml Sunflower Oil
- 200 g Grated Carrots (7oz)
- 75 g Mixed chopped nuts (plus extra for decoration)
- 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Ground Ginger
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 2 Eggs
- A dash of Vanilla Extract
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
- 350 g Icing sugar (10.5oz)
- 75 g Room Temperature Butter (2.6oz)
- 150 g Cream Cheese (5oz)
Instructions
For the cupcakes
- Start by adding the soft brown sugar, oil, eggs and a dash of vanilla into your mixing bowl. Using a stand mixer or hand whisk combine the ingredients.
- Once combined, sift in the plain flour, along with the bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, cinnamon & ginger, and mix together until you have a smooth mixture.
- Grate your carrots, adding these to the mixture with the chopped nuts. Mixing these through until all combined.
- You'll need a muffin tray with 12 cupcake cakes. Divide your mixture evenly into the 12 cupcake cases., placing it into a preheated oven at 170 degrees Celcius for 20 minutes. (I like to use a normal oven setting, rather than a fan oven, as a fan oven bakes the outside a lot faster than the inside)
- Once baked you can use a cocktail stick or skewer, push into the center of your cupcakes and if it comes out clean they are baked all the way through. Place these onto a cooling rack to cool down.
Making the frosting
- Into a bowl sift your icing sugar. To this add your room temperature butter (you need to use real butter for this, not a spread, as a spread will be too soft).
- Start mixing your frosting on a high speed, adding small amounts of cream cheese at a time.
- Once all the cream cheese has been added, mix for a further 4-5 minutes, until you are left with a creamy frosting.
- You can then place this into a piping bag or use an offset spatula to apply it to the top of your cupcakes, along with some extra nuts for decoration.