Zucchini Cupcakes with Caramel Frosting
These spice cupcakes with caramel frosting are such a scrumptious dessert you actually forget you’re eating your vegetables, too! Don’t know what to do with all the zucchini from your garden? Bake some of these cupcakes. Don’t have a garden? Buy fresh zucchini at your local vegetable stand or supermarket.
3 eggs
1-1/3 cups sugar
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon Watkins Almond Extract (2 fl oz) or (6 fl oz)
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons Watkins Ground Cinnamon
2 teaspoons Watkins Baking Powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Ground Cloves
1-1/2 cups shredded zucchini
Caramel Frosting
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla Extract
1-1/2 to 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, sugar, oil, orange juice and extract. Combine dry ingredients; add to the egg mixture and mix well. Add zucchini and mix well.
Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.
For frosting, combine brown sugar, butter and milk in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla. Cool to lukewarm.
Gradually beat in confectioners’ sugar until frosting reaches spreading consistency. Frost cupcakes. Yield: 1-1/2 to 2 dozen.
Tips
- Use small zucchini with peeling in this recipe. Just wash thoroughly, trim ends, and grate or shred.
- If you don’t know what to do with all the zucchini from your garden, grate and freeze.
- To make cupcakes or bread, thaw zucchini, drain, and blot with paper towel to remove excess moisture. Then measure and add to your recipe.
Adapted from Taste of Home recipe
Eleisia Whitney has a Watkins Home Business. She enjoys cooking and baking with Watkins extracts, spices, herbs, and sauces for healthy meals. Eleisia publishes a Watkins Newsletter called Around the Kitchen Table, that brings you recipes, cooking and health tips, and contests for free Watkins products.
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