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These tender and moist and lightly spiced gluten-free carrot cake cupcakes are the perfect twist to a traditional carrot cake.
This carrot cake recipe is as easy as it is delicious and is a gluten-free treat anytime of the year- not just at Easter.

As much as I love carrot cake, these gluten-free carrot cake cupcakes are easier and much quicker to make. Plus the recipe only makes 8 cupcakes.
Soft, fluffy and moist gluten-free carrot cake cupcakes that are completely made from scratch with real grated carrots, pumpkin seeds and lightly sweetened with Swerve Sweetener . I used Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 gluten-free flour blend in this recipe also.
Here are more gluten-free cupcake recipes to try:
Gluten-Free Strawberry Cupcakes
Gluten-Free Chocolate Cupcakes
Gluten-Free Cashew Butter Cupcakes

Carrot Cake Cupcakes might not be the best way to get in all your daily vegetables but they definitely are tasty especially topped off with a generous swirl of cream cheese frosting.
PrintRecipe: Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes

These gluten-free carrot cake cupcakes are flavourful, moist and a delight to all who love a traditional carrot cake.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup brown sugar Swerve sweetenerÂ
- 1/3 cup canola or vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup shredded carrots
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamonÂ
- 1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
- 3/4 cup + 1 Tbsp gluten free flour blend (1 to 1)
- 1/2 cup finely chopped dried apricots
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a muffin tin with 8 paper liners.
- In a medium bowl add the oil, brown sugar and eggs and with a hand mixer beat well until creamy.
- Add the flour, baking powder and cinnamon and mix well.
- Add the chopped apricots, pumpkin seeds and carrots and stir to combine.
- Use an ice cream scoop to drop batter into lined muffin pan.
- Bake for 25 minutes.
- Remove and cool.
- * I made a cream cheese icing for the cupcakes once they were cool.
- Enjoy!
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