Chocolate Beet Cupcakes With Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
photo by Chef on the coast
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
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24 cupcakes
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
- 453.59 g beet (about 2 med)
- cooking spray
- 157.80 ml granulated sugar
- 157.80 ml brown sugar
- 118.29 ml vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 591.47 ml all-purpose flour
- 14.79 ml cocoa powder, substitue for 1 t flour
- 9.85 ml baking powder
- 4.92 ml ground ginger
- 4.92 ml ground cinnamon
- 2.46 ml baking soda
- 1.23 ml salt
- 118.29 ml 1% low-fat milk
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Frosting
- 9.85 ml grated orange rind
- 4.92 ml vanilla extract
- 226.79 g package reduced-fat cream cheese, chilled
- 709.77 ml powdered sugar
- 29.58 ml finely chopped walnuts, toasted (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Peel the beets with a vegetable peeler. Grate beets using lrg holes of grater (use gloves or beets will dye hands).
- Spray muffin tins with cooking spray.
- Combine sugars, oil, and eggs in lrg bowl, beat at med speed until well blended. Add beets and beat well.
- In seperate lrg bowl add flour, and other dry ingredients and whisk together until mixed.
- Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with milk. Beginning and ending with flour mixture.
- Pour batter into cupcake tins and tap on counter to remove air bubbles.
- Bake at 350 for 20-30 min or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 mins on wire racks, remove from pans and cool completely.
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Frosting:
- Beat rind, vanilla, and cream cheese with mixer at high speed until fluffy. Add powdered sugar and beat at low speed until blended. (don not overbeat).
- Frost cupcakes and sprinkle with walnuts if using.
- Store in refrigerator.
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Reviews
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I doubled the recipe to use a 15 oz can of beets from the store. I pureed them and added to the batter. DH hates beets. He didn't even know they were in the cake! Neither do the kids. I did change the frosting to the icing from Recipe #303802 - just omitting the lemon juice and subbing vanilla and milk instead. These will be made again.