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Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes

March 16, 2018 By Jeanine Friesen 6 Comments

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These Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes are loaded with shredded carrots and warming cinnamon. Topped with the lightest cream cheese frosting, you are going to love them!

These Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes are loaded with shredded carrots and warming cinnamon. Topped with the lightest cream cheese frosting, you are going to love them!

Help me out here, are Carrot Cake Cupcakes a spring dessert, when we have Easter, or a fall dessert, when we harvest carrots?

I think they are perfectly suited for an Easter dessert, but honestly, I’d eat them any time of year.

These Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes are loaded with shredded carrots and warming cinnamon. Topped with the lightest cream cheese frosting, you are going to love them!

To decorate these gluten free Carrot Cake Cupcakes for Easter, I melted some coloured chocolate wafers in zipper seal bags, cut the tip off, and piped little carrots onto wax paper. Once they cooled, they can be picked up, and placed on top of your frosted cupcakes. Not necessary, but really, really cute, don’t you think?

This recipe is based on a gluten free Carrot Cake recipe that I have been using for years. To make things easier, I’ve now baked it in cupcake form. Cupcakes are cute – individual serving size, you can eat them with your hands, a higher frosting to cake ratio – what’s not to love?

These Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes are loaded with shredded carrots and warming cinnamon. Topped with the lightest cream cheese frosting, you are going to love them!

If you love gluten free Carrot Cake Cupcakes, you may also like:

  • Gluten Free Layered Carrot Cake and Cheesecake Cake
  • Gluten Free Carrot Cake Pancakes
  • Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cookies
  • Vegan and Gluten Free Carrot Cake
  • Creamy Gluten Free Carrot Pudding Cake

These Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes are loaded with shredded carrots and warming cinnamon. Topped with the lightest cream cheese frosting, you are going to love them!

These Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes are loaded with shredded carrots and warming cinnamon. Topped with the lightest cream cheese frosting, you are going to love them!

Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Yield: 18 cupcakes
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes

These Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes are loaded with shredded carrots and warming cinnamon. Topped with the lightest cream cheese frosting, you are going to love them!

Ingredients

Carrot Cake Cupcakes:

  • 2/3 cup brown rice flour
  • 2/3 cup sorghum flour
  • 2/3 cup tapioca starch
  • 2 tablespoons dry milk powder
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup oil
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
  • 4 large eggs, room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 3 cups grated carrots, packed
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Cream Cheese Frosting:

  • 1 cup confectioners' (icing) sugar
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Instructions

Carrot Cake Cupcakes:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line muffin tins with paper liners, or lightly grease. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the brown rice flour, sorghum flour, tapioca starch, dry milk powder, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, xanthan gum, salt, and nutmeg.
  3. In another bowl, whisk together the granulated sugar, oil, brown sugar, apple sauce, eggs, and vanilla extract.
  4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and stir to combine.Fold in the shredded carrots, and spoon into prepared muffin tins.
  5. Bake in preheated oven for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Remove to wire cooling rack, and cool completely before frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

  1. Beat together the confectioners' sugar, cream cheese, butter, and vanilla until smooth. Pipe on top of the cooled carrot cake muffins. I used a 1M Wilton piping tip to get the swirls. Refrigerate the cupcakes until ready to serve.

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© Jeanine Friesen
Cuisine: American / Category: Cupcakes

These Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes are loaded with shredded carrots and warming cinnamon. Topped with the lightest cream cheese frosting, you are going to love them!

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Comments

  1. Jeanne says

    March 16, 2018 at 3:45 pm

    These look great and I think I will make them for Easter, complete with the lil’ candy carrots on top! I need to leave the milk powder out of the recipe. What would be a good replacement for that? Thanks for the great -sounding recipe!

    Reply
    • Jeanine says

      March 16, 2018 at 4:29 pm

      Thanks, Jeanne! Omit it, you should be fine!

      Reply
  2. Linda says

    March 16, 2018 at 3:52 pm

    I was told the colored wafers are not gluten fee by Wiltons and the bulk food store. Which ones do you use that are GF.

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    • Jeanine says

      March 16, 2018 at 4:28 pm

      From my understanding, the Wilton ones contain no gluten, nor do they have a “may contain” statement, so I use those.
      Ingredients: SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, REDUCED MINERAL WHEY POWDER, WHOLE MILK SOLIDS, NONFAT DRY MILK SOLIDS, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR.

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  3. Jeanne Leder says

    March 16, 2018 at 7:37 pm

    I’m anxious to try these, Jeanine! I’ll have to change them a little, since our daughter can no longer eat rice. We’ll work it out. Thanks for the recipe. They look beautiful!!

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  4. Joyce says

    March 18, 2018 at 10:36 am

    Why do my gluten free cupcakes shrink once they have cooled? They look so small next to a box cake mix cupcake !

    Reply

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