Maple Magic Carrot Cupcakes Recipe | #ratingval# from #reviews# reviews | |
Prep time: 25 Mins
Cook time: 22 Mins
Yields: 15-18 Cupcakes
Why bake the usual vanilla and chocolate cupcakes? Give these maple carrot cupcakes a shot for your next special occasion and be prepared to get a lot of recipe requests.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups carrot, shredded
- 1/2 cup pureed silken tofu
- 1/2 cup yogurt
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup avocado oil
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
- carrot - zucchini, beets, apple
- avocado oil - any oil of your choice, melted butter
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C for 15 min. Line muffin tin with paper liners or lightly grease it with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl stir together all the dry ingredients except carrots; set aside.
- In another medium bowl combine together the wet ingredients.
- Stir the wet mix into the dry mix until just combined.
- Fold in the carrots.
- Fill the prepared muffin cups 2/3rds full and bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cupcake comes out clean. Mine was done in 22 minutes.
- Cool the cupcakes in the pan before moving it to the wire rack to cool completely.
- Frost it with your favorite cream cheese frosting and top it with chopped walnuts too make it look extra good.
- The original recipe used 1 cup of sugar plus the 1/2 cup of maple syrup. I reduced the quantity of sugar to 3/4th of a cup. The cupcakes were mildly sweet without the frosting and not too sweet with the frosting.
- cup of oil was used in the original recipe. I have replaced half of it with unsweetened applesauce.
- I have substituted silken tofu and yogurt for 4 eggs used in the original recipe.
- I used a different muffin pan which I bought from IKEA. At first I thought it was a smaller cup but was surprised to see that it held a little more batter than the usual muffin cups. I think that's the reason I just got 16 muffins, whereas the original recipe is for 18 muffins.