Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

I finally made the carrot cake... Was supposed to make it last weekend but I didn't have cream cheese. Okay, not that I couldn't buy, but I didn't buy because the price tag said "RM10.29" at the section where the 250gm Philadelphia Cream Cheese was displayed, and I was not at Cold Storage, I was at Econsave - Shouldn't the price be cheaper? The last time I bought a block of this cream cheese, it was RM8.99 thereabout. But I found out yesterday when I got my cream cheese at Giant, that the RM10.29 price is standard. Gosshhh... inflation!

Anyways, I've made the carrot cake into cupcakes so I will be indulging myself during the next few days. Baking alone was already very indulging for me. Hee...

One thing about carrot cake is, if the carrot are grated too coarsely, when you eat the cake, you will feel like you are chewing vegetables instead of eating cake.

It was a recipe with walnuts only, but I've added raisins and chocolate chips too. The carrot cake from San Francisco Coffee was only with raisins, I thought walnuts suit carrot cake very well. Chocolate chips is just random decision, in case I'm offering these cakes to any chocoholic. Haha...

When you are using oil as an ingredient, make sure the cake mix is well mixed.

The cuppies turn out nicely in their dome shapes.

But for this particular batch, it's actually better to have them raised evenly and not exceeding the height of the paper cups. Because...

Unless I trim the top (what a waste of cake!), otherwise, the icing will not fully cover the cake.

As oppose to this... see, the icing can be spread evenly.

Decoration time - with coloured butter icing. You only need two piping bags.

Pipe out the "body" of the carrot, give it a bit of jagged effect...

When doing the leaves, give it a bit of pull outwards to achieve a more 3D effect.

Now, would you know what cake it is if I don't mention?


It's Martin's birthday next week, so since we were going over to his place for dim sum, gave him his early birthday present. Happy birthday darling, muahs...

And another box for my sister's friends visiting Malaysia. Hope they like them.

Had one as my dessert just now after dinner.




The cake is very dense, you wouldn't really be able to "detect" the carrots, yet, it's the typical carrot cake taste. Would you try one for me?