Recipe: Perfect Carrot Cake Cupcakes

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This Carrot Cake Cupcakes recipe is unbelievably (yes, I'm going to use the "m" word) moist and perfectly spiced and loaded up with fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese. These are hands down the best Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting you'll ever find. They're moist without being dense, and have just the right amount of spice. You can cook Carrot Cake Cupcakes using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake Cupcakes

1. You need 200 grams of Grated carrots.
2. You need 3 of Eggs.
3. Prepare 125 ml of Oil.
4. Prepare 10 ml of Vanilla.
5. Prepare 200 grams of Sugar.
6. You need 50 grams of Brown sugar.
7. You need 180 ml of Buttermilk.
8. Prepare 300 grams of Flour.
9. You need 2 tsp of Baking soda.
10. You need 2 grams of Salt.
11. Prepare 2 tsp of Cinnamon.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of Nutmeg.
13. You need 1/2 tsp of Cloves.
14. You need 1/2 tsp of Ground ginger.
15. It's 100 grams of Walnuts.
16. You need 130 grams of Raisins.
17. It's 120 grams of Crushed pineapple with juice.

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Carrot Cake Cupcakes step by step

1. Place raisins in a bowl with the pineappe, Let soak for at least an hour. Toast walnuts either in the oven or on stove until fragrant. Finely grate carrots..
2. Preheat oven to 375F/190C and prepare your tins. In a bowl, add flour, soda, spices, and salt and whisk to combine..
3. In another bowl, mix the eggs and sugars on medium speed for about 5 minutes or until the mix is pale and double in volume. Add in the oil and vanilla..
4. Alternate the buttermilk with the flour mixture, reserving a bit of flour to dust the walnuts with. Add the carrot and raisins and mix. Add the walnuts and last of the flour until just combined. Spoon into tins..
5. This recipe actually made 24 cupcakes, 6 egg shaped individual cakes, and two 6" round layers. Omitting the walnuts and/or raisins will give you less..
6. Bake for 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out with dry crumbs..
7. These get better the next day so make a batch up ahead of time and make your frosting day of..

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