What Kind Of Oil: We examined this with avocado oil, vegetable oil, canola oil, and coconut oil. (!!) I cherished the coconut oil – it gave a supremely scrumptious, buttery texture when heat, however they grew to become agency and dry as they cooled. Since I’m guessing most of us could be making these forward of time to take to a gathering, I needed these to be baked with an oil that might keep tender and moist even when cooled. With that in thoughts, canola oil is an efficient alternative as a result of it stays tender and moist for a number of days.
Carrot Quantities: You may get numerous variation with carrot sizes! I made this many instances, and I extremely suggest weighing the carrots when you can – I take advantage of this scale (tremendous simple to make use of). I weigh them after I peel them and minimize tops off, so I do know precisely how a lot carrot (and flour, and sugar) I’m including to the recipe.
Making Carrot Toppers: Elective, however my sister did this years in the past (concept from Sally’s Baking Dependancy) and it’s the cutest. Right here’s my methodology for it: soften 3 squares of almond bark within the microwave for 90 seconds, checking it at 30 second increments. (Almond bark is way simpler to make use of than white chocolate, in my expertise.) Divide it between two bowls and use gel meals coloring to make a lightweight orange (a number of drops of pink + a number of drops of yellow) and a inexperienced. Switch the orange to a baggie, snip the nook, and pipe out small triangle-shaped squiggles onto parchment or wax paper. Then, do the identical for inexperienced. I positioned a small inexperienced dot on the high of the carrot and utilizing a toothpick to fan it out right into a 3-pronged carrot high. They’ll cool in about 20 minutes and be able to pop onto your cupcakes!
Sweetness of the Frosting: For those who discover the cream cheese frosting to be too candy to your liking, you can also make some whipped cream and fold it into the cream cheese frosting to make it extra fluffy and butter fairly than extra candy. Nice concept from a commenter not too long ago!
Liners vs. no liners: I desire to bake these with out paper liners – they get a pleasant little crispy ridge, and the distinction of the chewy, barely caramelized exterior is the proper distinction with the fluffy insides! Like so! 
