{"id":4638,"date":"2016-10-19T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icecreaminspiration.com\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2019-10-10T19:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T01:59:30","slug":"zucchini-carrot-cake-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icecreaminspiration.com\/zucchini-carrot-cake-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Zucchini Carrot Cake Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheseDo you have zucchini coming out your ears? Maybe you shredded a bunch and now it is taking up space in your freezer. Then stuff gets piled on it and it gets lost, possibly forever. Until your freezer dies and you have to clean it out and then you find ten frost-bitten bags of zucchini.<\/p>\n

Don’t let this happen to you (or your zucchini). Get that wondrous vegetable out right now and make these Zucchini Carrot Cake Cupcakes!<\/p>\n

Don’t you just love it when you can use not one, but TWO vegetables in a dessert? Makes you feel so much better about eating it! Because, you know, it’s “healthy.”<\/p>\n

I adapted this recipe from My Favorite Carrot Cake Recipe<\/a> on Sally’s Baking Addiction. I added zucchini and adjusted the amount of sugar, carrots and ginger. She uses toasted pecans in her recipe, but I have some sad, sad people at my house who don’t like nuts. So instead of stirring in the pecans, I just sprinkled some walnuts on top at the end. That way, people were free to pick them off (or scrape off the frosting, heaven forbid!)<\/p>\n

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I also have my own method when it comes to baking. Almost all recipes say to mix all the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and then add them to the wet ingredients. Two dirty bowls=no bueno. (Excuse my blatantly grammatically incorrect Spanish). So I just add part of the flour to the wet ingredients, along with the salt, baking soda and powder, and the spices. I mix all that in, then add the rest of the flour. I have never had anything but stellar results with this method.<\/p>\n

So save your zucchini from a depressing, forgotten death. Glorify it instead in these cupcakes. And be sure to grab my kitchen toolbox below!<\/p>\n

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