Carrot Cupcakes with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting

This recipe is from The Primrose Bakery book. There's orange rind in the carrot cupcakes and in the cream cheese frosting. The cupcake is light and soft and not too sweet. In the book, it says one batch of frosting is enough to frost 15-20 regular cupcakes. I ended up baking three times, over three days, just to finish off the frosting. I think I used it to frost about 30 cupcakes. I'm sure if I piled on the frosting, instead of flat-frosting, I wouldn't have so much left. But I think too much frosting would be......well, too much. Don't get me wrong, it was very very yummy. I think the orange goes very well with the carrot. But too much frosting would just overkill the taste.

Anyway, I will definitely make this again as it was so yummy. My older one loves carrot cake. One time we went to a popular cafe here in Singapore and I ordered a carrot cake. I asked my son if this cake was nicer or Mummy's was nicer. He said Mummy's. I said to him, "Are you saying it because it's true, or you just want to make me happy?" He said, "It's true. Your carrot cake is sooo much nicer. I think you should open a cake shop. And call it 'The Famous Sisters' Cake Shop'. " Awww, bless him!

Easter Cupcakes

Yes, this is a bit overdue since Easter's a few days gone. I actually had plans to get some chocolate eggs and pipe 'grass' onto the cupcakes as well as make some bunnies. Er, ahem, of course it didn't work out. I was feeling sooooo lazy that I thought of not making anything at all. Then on Thursday morning, I decided to make carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and just put a carrot on top and voila, cupcakes for Easter! Haha, yep, that is the lazy man's (or rather, woman) way of doing things! I gave these to my younger son's school teachers and my older son's music teacher.

London A-Calling...

Happy flowers

Made these for an office party. Everyone loved the flower power feel of them.

Bunnies

Carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting won't be complete without bunnies!