April - Food Network's "A Year of Cupcakes"

April was a very busy month for me and I did not get a chance to bake the April cupcake.  So thanks to my sister-in-law's urging, I baked April's cupcake today.  It is a carrot-walnut cupcake with cream cheese frosting with candied carrots and walnuts.  It is a really good cake -- nice and moist.  You could easily use this batter for a carrot cake.

Here are some of my observations:

1.  This was probably one of the easiest cupcakes to make.  The batter was super easy to make, and, as I said, super moist.  The cream cheese frosting was easy to make & the carrot strips & walnuts were easy to candy.

2.  I used my food processor to grate the carrots.  Word to the wise (especially if you don't use your food processor very often), make sure you turn the grater/slicer to the correct side that will grate your carrots and not slice them.  😏

3.  I'm still having trouble using a piping bag to frost my cupcakes.  After my futile attempt to pipe the frosting, I smoothed it out with a knife.

4.  I only put walnuts in half of the batter for those that don't like nuts or have allergies.  I decorated the cupcakes with just candied carrots for the ones without walnuts, and I decorated the ones that had the walnuts in the batter with candied carrots AND candied walnuts.

Here's the link to the cupcake recipe on Food Network.  Enjoy!