Carrot Cupcakes

My family doesn’t really like carrot cake but I love it. So I experimented with my own recipe and found that finely grinding walnuts in a coffee grinder made all the difference. Now we all can enjoy them. Top muffins with your favorite cream cheese frosting.

Original recipe makes 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

2 cups white sugar
1 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1 cup finely grated carrots

PREP

20 mins
COOK

15 mins
READY IN

35 mins

Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease or line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
Beat sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating until fully incorporated before adding the next egg. Mix vanilla extract into creamed butter mixture.
Whisk flour, walnuts, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Mix 1/3 of the flour mixture into the creamed butter mixture until just combined; add 1/2 of the milk and mix until combined. Stir 1/2 of the remaining flour mixture into the batter; add the remaining milk and mix until combined. Mix the remaining flour mixture into the batter and fold in carrots. Scoop batter into the prepared muffin cups.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 15 to 17 minutes.