Carrot Cupcakes With Orange Icing Recipes

CARROT CUPCAKES WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 12 muffin cups.
• In small saucepan, melt white chocolate over low heat. Stir until smooth, and allow to cool to room temperature.
• In a bowl, beat together the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Mix in white chocolate, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and orange extract. Gradually beat in the confectioners' sugar until the mixture is fluffy. Mix in heavy cream.
• Beat together the eggs, white sugar, and brown sugar in a bowl, and mix in the oil and vanilla. Fold in carrots and pineapple. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Mix flour mixture into the carrot mixture until evenly moist. Fold in 1/2 cup walnuts. Transfer to the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool completely on wire racks before topping with the icing and sprinkling with remaining walnuts.

CARROT CAKE CUPCAKES WITH ORANGE ICING (FLAT BELLY DIET RECIPE)

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners or do what i did and use heart shaped silicone cupcake cups (they are so cute!).
• 2.combine sugar, oil, buttermilk, eggs and vanilla extract in a bowl. Combine rest of dry ingredients in a separate bowl then add to oil mixture until smooth. Fold in carrots and raisins.
• 3. Spoon batter into cups and bake for 20 minutes, or until golden and springy when touched. Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then tranfer to a rack to cool completely.
• 4. Combine confectioners' sugar, juice and zest in a bowl until smooth. Spread some on each cake and let stand 15 minutes before serving.

CARROT CUPCAKES WITH ORANGE ICING

Steps:

• Make cupcakes:
• Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Line muffin cups with paper liners.
• Coarsely grate enough carrots to measure 2 cups using large teardrop holes of a box grater.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg in a bowl.
• Whisk together oil, eggs, brown sugar, grated carrots, and vanilla in a large bowl, then stir in flour mixture until just combined.
• Divide batter among muffin cups and bake until golden and a wooden pick inserted into center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan and cool completely on rack, about 1 hour more.
• To make the icing: Sift confectioners sugar into a bowl. Whisk in zest and 2 tablespoons juice until smooth. If icing is too thick, add more juice, 1 teaspoon at a time. Dip top of each cupcake into icing, letting excess drip off. Let icing set, about 15 minutes.