Pineapple Carrot Cupcakes
Pineapple Carrot Cupcakes | These Pineapple Carrot Cupcakes make the perfect Spring or Easter Dessert! Two of the most popular classic flavors in a carrot cake are pineapple and carrots. When combined they make the ultimate moist and tender cupcake. Top that delicious cupcake with a super fluffy creamy cream cheese frosting and roll the edges in chopped walnuts and you have a masterpiece!
Pineapple Carrot Cupcakes
Yield:
Makes 3 Dozen Cupcakes
Prep Time:
40 minutes
Cook Time:
18 minutes
Total Time:
58 minutes
Ingredients
For the Carrot Cake:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3 large eggs
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
- ¾ cup butter, softened
- 11 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 (2 pound) bag confectioners' sugar
- 2 cups walnuts, chopped
Instructions
For the Carrot Cake:
- Line cupcake tin with 30 liners; preheat oven to 350°.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl beat together the eggs, sugar, oil, buttermilk and vanilla.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the egg mixture until blended; fold in the carrot and pineapple.
- Use an ice cream scoop to evenly distribute batter.
- Bake 18 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool in pans 15 minutes, cool completely on wire racks.
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Cream together the butter, cream cheese and vanilla; beat until light and fluffy..
- Add confectioners' sugar 1 cup at a time continue to beat an additional 5 minutes.
- Pour chopped nuts into a bowl.
- Spread frosting on cupcake; roll around the edge of the cupcake in chopped nuts.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve.
- Store any leftover cupcakes in the refrigerator.
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Looks like a really nice combination of flavours. And that filling sounds really good.
Visiting from Kids in the Kitchen! Those look delicious. My mouth is watering. So glad I stopped by!
oh how yummy – thanks for linking with Kids in the Kitchen
These look so good. I love the flavor combo! Can’t wait to try them.
That sounds so delicious.. I am a sucker for carrot cake and pineapple is also a fave, the combo must be devine!
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These look great!
My son will LOVE these. Anything with pineapple is a huge hit with him. We’ll be trying these for sure:)
Hi Sheyl, Your cupcakes were one of three that got the most clicks, last week and is being featured, this week. Congrats. You do bake beautifully and deserve all commendations. Thanks for sharing with us.
These are my kind of cupcakes!
These were awesome!
Thank You Stasie!
I made these cupcakes for a bus ride. It was someone’s birthday and I was asked to make a carrot cake. I made these instead. My hubby loved them and told me to keep the recipe. Everyone on the bus loved them. I got more rave reviews on them and someone asked if they could buy them. Guess I’ll be making them a lot.
Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Wow! That’s so cool Ro!
Can I add golden raisins to these?
Hi Gerry, Yes! That’s a great idea! ♥
I usually look for star ratings to try recipes because I don’t want to be the guinea pig, per se, but reading the 1 comment from Ro, who actually made these, I will definitely try these. If there’s a way to put the star rating system here instead of Write A Review would be better.
Hi Beliza, I recently added the star option.