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Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Lemon Ricotta Frosting

Anupama Paliwal
April 11, 2017
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These awesomely fun, light, soft, moist and seductive Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Lemon Ricotta Frosting can make anyone drool. They are absolutely sufficiently sinful to enjoy as a dessert. And also they are sufficiently healthy so that you could eat them for breakfast like I do. I just love ‘em.

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For Carrot Cake Cupcakes:
Wheat flour or Plain flour - 2 cups (225g)
Eggs - 2 large
Cinnamon - 1 tsp
Peeled and Grated carrots - 2½ cup
Chopped walnuts - ½ cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Salt - ½ tsp
Raisins - 4 tbsp (Optional)
Powder sugar - ½ cup (100g)
Vegetable oil - I cup (250ml) (I used rapeseed)
Chopped walnuts and chocolate eggs for decoration (Optional)
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
For Frosting:
Skim Ricotta - 200g
Greek yogurt - 200g
Lemon juice - ½ tsp
Lemon zest - 1 tsp
Honey - ¼ cup
For The Carrot Cake Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 180°C // 355°F. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, granulated sugar, oil, vanilla, using a wire whisk or an electric hand mixer. Whisk until slightly...
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Nutritions

Calories
27

Sodium
3mg
0% DV

Fat
2g
3% DV

Protein
0.4g
0% DV

Carbs
1g
0% DV

Fiber
0.2g
0% DV
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Fat
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Fiber
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