Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Submitted by swirlycinnacakes

"Just like mini carrot cakes :P"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1⁄3 cups vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 3 extra-large eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1⁄8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1⁄8 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 3 cups grated carrots

directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Whisk together the sugar, oil, and vanilla together in a large bowl. Whisk in the eggs, 1 at a time.
3. In another bowl, sift together the flour, spices, baking soda, and salt. Add 1/2 of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir gently. Add the grated carrots to the remaining flour, mix well, and add to the batter. Stir until just combined.
4. Line muffin tins with paper liners.
5. Scoop the batter into 24 muffin cups until each is 3/4 full.
6. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes then reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake for about 25 minutes more, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
7. Set aside to cool.

Reviews

[tomsawyer]

This was very easy and delicious! I cut it down to make 8 cupcakes for our family and cooked them at 400 degrees for 15 minutes and then at 350 for about 5-10ish minutes. I wasn't really sure as our oven can be quite irregular when adjusting the temperatures. Well anyways these were delicious and nice and easy.

 

[Briannelynn]

Very easy recipe to follow and makes delicious carrot cake cupcakes!!!

 

[fidelitysmom]

I used turbinado sugar and added fresh grated coconut about half a cup.I also used whole spices and grinded them up in my coffee grinder.The cupcakes are delicious, nice and moiste ,and easy to follow.Perfect for our Easter party.

 

[Heidi T.]

I just made these, but I was slightly disappointed. The consistency seemed more like a muffin, nd they're weren't as moist as we would have liked. I'm wondering if adding a little sour cream to the mix would help. They also weren't very sweet at all - had to use a lot of cream cheese frosting to sweeten them up. Overall it's not a bad recipe & it's very quick and simple, but it just wasn't our cup of tea.

 

[Alanna Dean]

I ended up making this as a cake, and not cupcakes, which made the consistencey a little weird. The flavor was great, though.