Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Delicious Carrot Cake Cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting.
Original recipe
- Total
- 1 hr 7 min
- Serves
- 12
- Sourced
- 12 Aug 2026
- Items
- 18
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Cooking for
Adding it again later updates the quantities instead of doubling up.
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Ingredients
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Names and measures for Australia
- 175 gplain flour1 and 1/4 cups
- 90 gbrown sugar1/2 cup
- 100 gcaster sugar1/2 cup
- 1and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2.25 gground cinnamon1 tsp = 5 ml = 2.25 g (read as AU: 1 teaspoon = 5 ml)
- 1.25 mlground nutmeg0.25 tsp = 1.25 ml (read as AU: 1 teaspoon = 5 ml)
- 0.75 gsalt0.13 tsp = 0.63 ml = 0.75 g (read as AU: 1 teaspoon = 5 ml)
- 100 gcarrotfinely grated, 1 cup
- 30 gwalnutsfinely chopped, 1/3 cup
- 110 gvegetable oil120 ml = 120 ml = 110 g
- 4.5 gvanilla extract1 tsp = 5 ml = 4.4 g (read as AU: 1 teaspoon = 5 ml)
- 50 gegg1 eggs = 50 g (typical size here)
- 125 gfat milk120 ml = 120 ml = 124 g
- 115 gbuttersoftened, 1/2 cup or 1 stick
- 250 gfat cream cheesesoftened, roughly chopped, 1 and 1/4 cup
- 4.5 gvanilla extract1 tsp = 5 ml = 4.4 g (read as AU: 1 teaspoon = 5 ml)
- 375 gicing sugar3 cups
- 1walnutsroughly chopped, lightly toasted
Recipe by Jessica Holmes, Sweetest Menu. Method rewritten for this cookbook — read the original on Sweetest Menu.
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Scaled for 12 serves
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How it goes together
- 01
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F) standard / 160 C (320 F) fan-forced. Line a 12-hole muffin pan with cupcake liners.
- 02
Step 2
In a large mixing bowl, add flour, sugars, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Add grated carrot and walnuts and mix briefly.
- 03
Step 3
In a separate bowl, add oil, vanilla, egg and milk and whisk gently, just to break up the egg yolks.
- 04
Step 4
Add to dry ingredients, and mix gently until combined. Batter will be quite runny – that’s fine.
- 05
Step 5
Spoon batter into cupcake liners, filling each one around 2/3 full. Bake for approximately 20-22 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave cupcakes on a wire rack to cool completely.
- 06
Step 6
To make the cream cheese frosting, add butter and cream cheese to a large mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer for 2 minutes until smooth and creamy. Add vanilla. Add sugar, 1 cup at a time, and continue to beat until smooth.
- 07
Step 7
Transfer frosting to piping bag fitted with a large round tip. Pipe frosting onto cupcakes. Decorate with chopped walnuts.
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