Cakes

Pumpkin Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

Trish Rosenquist
April 02, 2018
813

This isn’t your average carrot cake recipe. It’s loaded with pumpkin, maple syrup, and pumpkin pie spice for the greatest flavor combination in history. And then I topped it with the most amazing frosting of all time…Pumpkin Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting – the cupcakes you need to make this Fall!

18
Cup cakes
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup butter ( softened )
2 eggs ( room temperature )
1 cup pure pumpkin puree ( not pumpkin pie filling )
1/2 cup maple syrup ( real maple syrup )
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup shredded carrot
Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
4 oz softened cream cheese
1/2 cup softened butter
2 Tbls maple syrup
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/8 tsp maple extract ( optional )
1 2/3 cups powdered sugar
Cupcakes Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tin with cupcake liners. Cream brown sugar and butter together in mixer. Add in eggs, one a time, beating until fully combined. Mix in pumpkin and maple...
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Nutritions

Calories
356

Sodium
222mg
9% DV

Fat
13g
20% DV

Protein
3g
7% DV

Carbs
58g
19% DV

Fiber
1g
7% DV

Vegetarian Snack Baked mom on timeout light brown sugar butter eggs pure pumpkin puree pumpkin pie spice maple cream cheese frosting cream cheese