Easy Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Our favorite carrot cake recipe, in cupcake form! These Carrot Cake Cupcakes are topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting that tastes amazing! They are the perfect treat for Easter, spring bake sales, or a simple afternoon treat!

Ingredients

For the Cupcakes Flour | Sugar | Baking Powder Cinnamon | Nutmeg | Salt | Eggs Vegetable Oil | Vanilla Extract Carrots For the Frosting Cream Cheese | Butter | Vanilla Salt | Powdered Sugar | Milk For the Toppers Orange Tootsie Rolls | Fresh Parsley

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl.  Add oil, eggs, and vanilla; mix well. Add carrots and mix until blended. Spoon into muffin tin and bake for 20 minutes.

Combine frosting ingredients in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth.

Roll Tootsie Roll into a log, making one end narrower than the other. Lay on wax paper and use the back of a knife to make small indentations.

Gently place on each frosted cupcake, then place small parsley leaf to top your "carrot".  Enjoy!

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