Carrot Succulent Cupcakes
Recipe - The Fresh Grocer - Corporate
Carrot Succulent Cupcakes
Prep Time60 Minutes
Servings24
Cook Time20 Minutes
Ingredients
3 cups Bowl & Basket all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp Bowl & Basket ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp Bowl & Basket ground ginger
1/2 tsp Bowl & Basket ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp Bowl & Basket ground cloves
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup Bowl & Basket vegetable oil
1 cup packed Bowl & Basket dark brown sugar
1 cup Wholesome Pantry coconut sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 tsp Wholesome Pantry vanilla
3 cups shredded carrots (about 4 carrots)
Vanilla or cream cheese frosting, for decorating
Green, pink, white and yellow food dye, for decorating
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and two cupcake pans with paper liners.
- In a small bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour through the salt) well and set aside.
- In a large bowl or a stand mixer, whisk oil and both sugar until well combined, then whisk in eggs, followed by applesauce and vanilla.
- Fold in shredded carrots.
- Gently stir dry ingredient mixture into carrot mixture until just mixed, then scoop or pour a scant ¼ cup of carrot cake batter into each lined cupcake cavity.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until cupcakes spring back lightly when touched and a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool in pan for 5 minutes before gently removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- Once cool, decorate!
- Dye vanilla frosting using different succulent colors like pale green, pink and yellow, then use different piping tips to create different cactus shapes on the top of the cupcakes. A petal tip will help you make the cabbage rose shape, and you can pipe little cactus thorns using undyed white frosting.
60 minutes
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
24
Servings
Shop Ingredients
Makes 24 servings
Bowl & Basket Pre-Sifted Bleached Enriched All Purpose Flour, 32 oz, 2 Pound
$1.69$0.85/lb
Arm & Hammer Pure Baking Soda, 1 lb, 16 Ounce
$1.59$0.10/oz
Badia Ground Cinnamon, .5 oz, 0.5 Ounce
$1.49$2.98/oz
Ground Ginger, 5 oz, 5 Ounce
$4.99$1.00/oz
Bowl & Basket Ground Nutmeg, 2.1 oz, 2.1 Ounce
$2.39$1.14/oz
Badia Ground Cloves, 1.75 oz, 1.75 Ounce
$3.19$1.82/oz
Morton Coarse Kosher Salt, 48 oz, 48 Ounce
$3.99$0.08/oz
Bowl & Basket 100% Pure Vegetable Oil, 24 fl oz, 24 Fluid ounce
$2.79$0.12/fl oz
Bowl & Basket Dark Brown Sugar, 32 oz, 2 Pound
$3.49$1.75/lb
Wholesome Pantry Organic Unrefined Coconut Sugar, 1 lb, 16 Ounce
$6.19$6.19/lb
Bowl & Basket Fresh White Eggs, Large, 18 count, 36 oz, 18 Each
$7.49$0.42 each
Musselman's Cinnamon Apple Sauce, 48 oz, 48 Ounce
On Sale! Limit 4
$3.00 was $3.79$0.06/oz
Wholesome Pantry Organic Pure Vanilla Extract, 4 fl oz, 4 Fluid ounce
$11.99$3.00/fl oz
Dorot Farm Fresh & Sweet Carrots, 16 oz, 1 Pound
$0.99$0.99/lb
Pillsbury Creamy Supreme White Frosting, 16 oz, 16 Ounce
$2.79$0.17/oz
McCormick Assorted Food Colors & Egg Dye, 0.5 fl oz, 3 count, 1.5 Fluid ounce
$5.99$3.99/fl oz
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and two cupcake pans with paper liners.
- In a small bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour through the salt) well and set aside.
- In a large bowl or a stand mixer, whisk oil and both sugar until well combined, then whisk in eggs, followed by applesauce and vanilla.
- Fold in shredded carrots.
- Gently stir dry ingredient mixture into carrot mixture until just mixed, then scoop or pour a scant ¼ cup of carrot cake batter into each lined cupcake cavity.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until cupcakes spring back lightly when touched and a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool in pan for 5 minutes before gently removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- Once cool, decorate!
- Dye vanilla frosting using different succulent colors like pale green, pink and yellow, then use different piping tips to create different cactus shapes on the top of the cupcakes. A petal tip will help you make the cabbage rose shape, and you can pipe little cactus thorns using undyed white frosting.