Not only are these Carrot Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese cute and dainty in style but also have a deliciously moist carrot cupcake recipe with a subtly sweet and smooth cream cheese frosting. This recipe adds walnuts, raisins, apricots, pumpkin pie spice, fresh orange juice and grated carrots for a unique and flavorsome carrot cupcake that you’ve never tasted before.
To make Carrot Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese, you will need the following ingredients:
Preheat the oven to 425 °F and line a 12-cup muffin tray with paper cups.
In a single layer, spread out ½ cup of walnuts on a baking sheet and toast in the preheated oven for about 2-3 minutes until lightly golden.
Transfer to a chopping board then cool and roughly chop.
Reduce the heat of the oven to 325 °F.
In a medium bowl, whisk 1½ cups of flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, and ¼ teaspoon of salt until combined.
In another large bowl, whisk ½ cup dark brown sugar, ¼ cup granulated sugar, 2 eggs, ½ cup of canola oil, and 2 tablespoons of orange juice. Add the flour mixture to the eggs and mix to combine.
Add the dry ingredients mixture to the wet ingredients and combine well.
Fold in ½ pound of peeled and grated carrots, ½ cup of golden raisins, ¼ cup of roughly chopped dried apricots, and the toasted and crushed walnuts.
Divide the prepared batter between the 12 cups in the muffin tray. Bake in the preheated oven for about 20-25 minutes until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool completely, on a wire rack, before decorating.
Using an electric beater, beat 8-ounces of cream cheese with ⅓ cup of sour cream until combined then add ½ cup of confectioners sugar and 2 tablespoons of honey and continue beating until smooth.
Transfer the prepared frosting to the refrigerator for about 45 minutes up to 3 days to chill.
Spread white frosting evenly over the baked and cooled cupcakes and tint the remaining frosting with some orange and green coloring. Transfer to a piping bag and pipe carrots and tops for decoration.
Enjoy!
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Not surprised these are top tier when I saw who it was made by lol.
I personally think the best carrot cake recipe had a little more texture but thats just me, both were equally delicious in the end nonetheless.
So the walnuts weren't too tasty with this instead I'd recommend using almonds they taste far better with desserts.
It's a shame most desserts aren't too healthy, I'd gladly eat this everyday if I wouldn't get fat haha.
Raisins are a biggg no from me but everything else blended well.
Not the most affordable dessert on this website for sure but is it worth it? Yes. Let me explain why. Not only does this have an amazing texture (Soft on the inside stable and slightly crunchy on the outside) It can be used for every holiday if you mix around ingridents, on christmas add cinnamon, on halloween add licorice frosting etc. Really good idea.
Can't get over how easy it was to make this love me some carrot cake and having it be mini and cute with some honey is even better!
Why the double baking powder and soda thing? just curious why
Easter is my all time favorite holiday and these cupcakes do it justice, the perfect easter dessert that anyone could ask for and you can always change up the design!
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