Gluten Free Pumpkin Carrot Cupcakes
These gluten free pumpkin carrot cupcakes are packed with tons of shredded carrots, a cup of pumpkin puree, and plenty of warm spices.
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all purpose gluten free flour blend (I used Better Batter; please click thru for full info on appropriate blends)
- ¾ teaspoon xanthan gum (omit if your blend already contains it)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (or pumpkin pie spice)
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 cups shredded carrots (from about 5 carrots peeled and shredded)
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter melted and cooled
- 4 tablespoons neutral oil (vegetable, canola or grapeseed)
- 2 eggs at room temperature, beaten
- 7 ½ ounces pure packed pumpkin (one-half a 15 ounce can)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease or line a 12-cup muffin tin and set it aside.
- In a large bowl, place the flour, xanthan gum, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, granulated sugar, and brown sugar, and whisk to combine well, working out any lumps in the brown sugar. Add the carrots, and stir to combine.
- Create a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the melted butter, oil, eggs, pumpkin and vanilla, and mix to combine. The mixture should be thick and moist, but not at all stiff.
- Add most of the chocolate chips, and stir until they’re evenly distributed throughout the batter. If you’d like, reserve a few chocolate chips to place on the tops of the batter once it’s transferred to wells in the muffin tin.
- Fill the wells of the muffin tin completely with the batter, and shake the tin back and forth to redistribute the batter into even layers in each well.
- Scatter any remaining chocolate chips evenly over the tops of the dough and press gently to help them adhere.
- Place the muffin tin in the center of the preheated oven and bake until the muffin tops spring back when they’re pressed gently in the center, about 25 minutes.
- Allow to cool about 10 minutes in the pan, and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
