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These carrot cake cupcakes have a deliciously moist crumb and are made of freshly grated carrots! Plus the homemade cream cheese frosting is an ideal combo!
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The Best Carrot Cupcakes (Soft, Moist, and Delicious)

These carrot cake cupcakes have a deliciously moist crumb and are made of freshly grated carrots! Plus the homemade cream cheese frosting is an ideal combo!
Course Cupcakes
Cuisine American
Keyword carrot cupcakes, dessert, Greek Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
10 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 24 cupcakes
Author Valya's Taste of Home

Ingredients

Cupcake Batter Ingredients

  • 2 cups – all-purpose unbleached organic flour
  • ½ tbsp. – ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. – baking soda
  • 2 tsp. – baking powder
  • ¼ tsp. – nutmeg
  • 1/8 tsp.– sea salt
  • 3 large – eggs
  • ½ cup – sugar
  • 1 tsp. – pure vanilla extract
  • ¾ cup – unsweetened apple sauce
  • 2 cups – grated carrots

Greek Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients

  • 16 oz. – cream cheese (softened)
  • ½ cup – sugar
  • 6 oz. – unsalted butter (softened)
  • ½ cup – any plain Greek Yogurt
  • 1 tsp. - pure vanilla extract
  • Turmeric powder or orange food coloring
  • Carrot greenery

Instructions

How to Make Cupcake Batter

  • Let’s start by first prepping the carrots. Peel, rinse, and grate carrots. Then set them aside until ready for use.
  • Next, measure out all the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix them together using a hand whisk. Set this aside as well until ready for use.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C). Beat eggs and sugar on high for 5 minutes with an electric mixer in a large bowl, or in the bowl of a stand mixer.
  • Next, reduce the mixing speed to medium/low and add vanilla extract and apple sauce. Mix for another minute or so.
  • Remove the bowl from the mixer stand and add the dry ingredients we had mixed and set aside earlier. Add them in two separate additions.
  • Carefully mix dry ingredients with each addition trying not to deflate air pockets. Also, use a large spatula to stir in the grated carrots very carefully in 2 additions.

How to Bake Carrot Cake Cupcakes

  • Time to bake these delicious cupcakes! Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners. Then divide the batter evenly between all 24 liners.
  • Next, bake the cupcakes in the oven for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cupcake. Let the cupcakes cool completely on a wire rack before frosting them.

How to Make Greek Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting

  • While the cupcakes cool, let's make our homemade cream cheese frosting!
  • To do this, beat softened cream cheese and sugar on high mixing speed for a couple of minutes, scraping down the cream cheese from the sides of the mixer bowl halfway through. Then add butter and beat again until well combined.
  • Next, add the Greek yogurt to the bowl and beat again for about a minute, while scraping down the sides of the bowl in the middle of mixing. Finally, add vanilla extract and beat again for another minute.

How to Decorate Cupcakes

  • Everything is done! Now let’s decorate these beautiful cupcakes. Use a large 2 A tip with a piping bag to pipe the cream onto cooled cupcakes. Then sprinkle some crushed Oreo cookies on top of each cupcake.
  • Add orange coloring (I used turmeric powder) to color the cream orange. Pipe out the carrot on top of each cupcake and insert carrot greenery into each carrot. Y
  • Feel free to decorate the cupcakes in any other way you like instead! Your delicious Carrot Cake Cupcakes are ready to be served.