Preheat the oven to 180☌ and line 2 muffin tins with cupcake liners. NB: This recipe makes around 14 regular sized cupcakes.Ĭarrot Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese FrostingĢ cups grated carrot (around 3-4 regular-sized carrots)ģ Tbspn good quality maple syrup (or 1-2 tspn maple flavouring) Trust me, even if you, like me, are not a carrot cake fan I think these will definitely change your mind! They are also awesome-ly Easter appropriate, so happy baking this Easter! They were light and fluffy and moist and had some amazing spiced flavours. The recipe is based off the recipe from my Bluebell Cakery book, but she used crystallized ginger and coconut which I don't really like and also think that makes it more like a hummingbird cake than a carrot cake, so I took that out and added some dates in and I must say even though I'm usually not a fan of carrot cake, these were perfect. I think it worked pretty well!Ībout the actual cupcake. After seeing a couple of examples I decided on using mini chocolate eggs and piping the frosting more like a basket than a peak. Now I don't mind paper decorations but I knew that I probably wouldn't be bothered in the end to actually make/print anything and anyone who knows me knows that I really dislike fondant because of it's sickly sweet and unpleasant taste (it always seems like a lot of work when most people don't even eat the decorations!), so I needed an edible decoration. I looked on the internet for a while for some inspiration for the cupcakes and a lot of what I found was very heavy on using either paper decorations or a lot of fondant/gum paste to model characters etc. I thought I hadn't taken anything in to work in a while and with Easter approaching, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to do some themed baking. I feel like time has just been slipping away from me again, and it's been a while since my last post, so sorry about that! I have still been baking a little bit but I've also been away most weekends lately so it's taken me a while to get back into the swing of things.
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