Carrot Cupcakes with Orange Icing

Name: Carrot Cupcakes with Orange Icing
Prep time: 1 d 1 h
Cook time: 1 d 1 h
Total time: 1 d 1 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 12 servings Garnish: candied carrot curls; 4 mediums carrots; 296 milliliters confectioners sugar; 3 larges eggs; 355 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoons ground ginger; 237 milliliters packed light brown sugar; 0 teaspoons grated nutmeg; 2 Tbsps fresh orange juice; 1 teaspoons grated orange zest; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 177 milliliters vegetable oil

The recipe Carrot Cupcakes with Orange Icing is ready in about 25 hours and is definitely a super dairy free and vegetarian option for lovers of American food. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 12. One serving contains 347 calories, 4g of protein, and 15g of fat. A mixture of eggs, vegetable oil, vanillan extract, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Line muffin cups with paper liners.

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Muffin Liners

Oven

Coarsely grate enough carrots to measure 2 cups using large teardrop holes of a box grater.

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Carrot

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Box Grater

Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg in a bowl.

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Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Ginger

Nutmeg

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

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Whisk together oil, eggs, brown sugar, grated carrots, and vanilla in a large bowl, then stir in flour mixture until just combined.

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Brown Sugar

Carrot

Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Whisk

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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.

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Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Oven

Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes.

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Frying Pan

Remove cupcakes from pan and cool completely on rack, about 1 hour more.

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Cupcakes

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Sift confectioners sugar into a bowl.

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Powdered Sugar

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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. Put a carrot curl on top of each and let icing set, about 15 minutes.

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Cupcakes

Carrot

Icing