Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
This Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing is a PCOS-friendly recipe.
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups white sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 4 large eggs
- 4 large carrots, grated
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Grease 12 muffin cups with butter or line with paper liners.
- Sift flour, white sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and ginger together in a large bowl.
- Beat canola oil and eggs into flour mixture with an electric mixer, beating each egg thoroughly before adding the next one.
- Stir carrots into mixture until well combined.
- Fill the prepared muffin cups about 2/3 full with carrot mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cupcakes are lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Let cupcakes cool completely.
- Beat unsalted butter and cream cheese together with an electric mixer on high speed in a bowl until fluffy. Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in vanilla extract and confectioners' sugar until combined. Increase speed to high, and beat until the frosting is fluffy, about 3 more minutes.
- Fill a pastry bag with the cream cheese frosting and pipe onto the cupcakes.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, this Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing recipe is designed to be PCOS-friendly., it supports balanced blood sugar and hormonal health.
Yes, this recipe works well as a PCOS-friendly Dessert. Pair it with other PCOS-friendly foods throughout the day for balanced nutrition.
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