Carrot Cupcake

After the Firemen ate all the snickerdoodle cupcakes (and to be fair, I've gave them all to them). I had to bake another batch of cupcakes for my community group. But, instead of repeating a recipe, I saw this as a chance to keep plowing through. Now, my apologies to CG who have been deprived of the snickerdoodle. I promise to make it for you one day.

So what did I make...well carrots were on sale.

The Carrot Cupcake!



I LOVE Carrot cake. And I do mean carrot cake, not hummingbird cake or morning glory cake (that's when someone destroys a perfectly good carrot cake by adding pineapple, raisins and coconut. That is NOT a carrot cake!--Walnuts are acceptable especially since walnuts are always acceptable). Jon and I even chose Carrot Cake as our wedding cake.

This one uses 1 POUND of carrots! That's a lot of carrots. And a lot of shredding (thank you Sous!). It also uses what feels like a whole lot of oil. (And end result--it IS a whole lot of oil). This produces carrot cupcakes that certainly are moist and carrot intense. It almost felt healthy eating them.

Traditionally, carrot cake gets topped with cream cheese frosting (yummm...). But since I was out of cream cheese (sigh). I decided to go sans frosting. I told myself, you've made cream cheese frosting from scratch before so it's not really cheating. So...the carrot cupcake muffinesque.

Like I said before, this guy was tasty with sweet carrot flavor but very oily--which only felt worse as time went on. The box I transported them in became soaked with oil after a few days (yes-there were leftovers. The recipes yield at least 24 each time and there are only 6-8 of us gathered). Those who are local, now you know. Drop by on a Monday for a tasty (day-old) cupcake.

Last Bite: As far as carrot cakes go, this one was super-oily but did feel more like a healthy savory carrot muffin (despite the oilyness) Than a good cupcake. I'd stick to the Duncan Hines box mix for carrot cake. It's just so much easier, tastes better-and like a cake. Plus, if you time it right can cost $1.