These are the most moist and delicious homemade carrot cake cupcakes ever. Each cupcake is filled with shredded carrots, crushed pineapples, and coconut flakes. So much goodness.
Welcome to this month’s Food Fight! Fantastical Food Fight is a group of bloggers who will get a theme or ingredient each month and make some sort of variation for it. It could be traditional or nontraditional recipe from a cookbook, a blog, or the blogger’s own creation. This is my first month participating and I lucked out! This month’s theme is Carrot Cake! You can see the other blogger’s creations at the end of this post.
I’ve never made carrot cake, eaten my share of it, but never have I made one from scratch. Armed with a new cookbook, with the perfect recipe for carrot cake, I was ready! I went with the cupcake form of carrot cake and they turned out simply delicious. The hardest part (and it really wasn’t hard) was to shred the carrots. Yes, I could have used a food processor, but I found using the grater was just fine and less clean up too.
The recipe is simple to follow and the cupcakes turn out moist and full of flavor. I used this cream cheese frosting recipe to top each of the cupcakes.
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Homemade Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups canola oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 pound carrots shredded (about 2 cups)
- 1 8 oz can crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- Cream Cheese Frosting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line a muffin pan with paper cupcake liners.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.
- In large bowl, whisk the eggs, oil, and sugar together until light and yellow in color. This takes about 3 minutes.
- Then, stir in carrots, pineapples, coconut, and pecans.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, combining after each addition.
- Fill the muffin cups about two-thirds of the way full.
- Bake for 22 - 26 minutes. Test with a toothpick, and note that when lightly touched, the cake will spring back a bit. Remove from oven and cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.
- Frost with cream cheese frosting and decorate as desired. Makes 24 cupcakes
- Recipe from the Cookbook, Daisy Bakes Cakes.
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Beautiful cupcakes and I love the blog name.
Thank you Wendy!
Oh yum! These look perfect (and cute)!
These look amazing, and I’m so intrigued by the cookbook! I started shredding the carrots with a box grater and then gave up and dragged out the food processor. Two things to wash, lol!!
I love the cookbook and check back on Friday for my review of it. I guess I’m just used to the box grater as it was all we had growing up. I’ve never had the need for a food processor with using the grater and a knife.
Thanks!
These are positively dreamy!! They are just perfect!!
Thank you!!
Those cupcakes look really cute, and so flavor loaded!
Thank you, the flavors are amazing and the cupcakes stay moist for a few days too.
These look wonderful! I’m a big fan of anything ‘carrot cake’ and your frosting/decorations are perfect!
Thank you! I love anything “carrot cake” as well.
These look yummy and the presentation is gorgeous.
This is lovely and the fact that these carrot cupcakes are easy to make — makes it a family favorite. Thank you for the inspiration. I am making one tonight.
*sigh* I just love carrot cake so much. This Food Fight has been the best and I have so many new recipes to try. Your cupcakes look so beautiful and tasty. I need to find me some of these little sugar decorations that everyone has been sporting on their goodies!
Love it! These are adorable!
I’ve always wanted to make a carrot cake. I like the muffins idea more now that I see yours. Thanks for the recipe and the cream cheese frosting one too..
Question: Where did you get the cute carrot stick decorations for the top?
Terri, thank you! I got the carrot stick decorations from Target. They are also at Michael’s and Walmart during the Easter time. You could probably even order them from Amazon
Thank you.