Spiced Green Tomato Cupcakes!

The garden at my parents house is a jungle... Seriously... There are mysterious creatures living in the abyss of the tomato plants..... And boy there are more (green) tomatoes than we know what to do with!... And well, the zucchini cupcake and the carrot cupcake have been done and done and done and done............ Lets get a little adventurous shall we?

Spiced Green Tomato Cupcakes

 

Ingredients:

2 and 1/2 cups                     Green tomatoes, pureed
1/2 cup                                 Unsalted butter, room temp
2 cups                                   Cane sugar
2                                           Eggs, room temp
1 tsp.                                    Pure vanilla extract
2 cups                                  All-purpose flour
1 tsp.                                    Baking soda
2 tsp.                                    Ground cinnamon
1 tsp.                                    Ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp.                                 Ground ginger
1/4 tsp.                                 Sea salt, fine
3/4 cup                                 Raisins
1/2 cup                                 Walnuts, chopped


Pre-heat oven to 350. Line two standard muffin pans with cupcake liners. In a stand mixer with fitted paddle, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time until fully incorporated. Beat in vanilla extract. Add green tomato puree. In a medium size bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to tomato mixture on low speed scraping down sides of bowl. Fold in raisins and walnuts. Bake until done (toothpick comes out clean). Cool completely.

Cream cheese frosting:

8 oz.                           Cream cheese, room temp
1/2 cup                       Unsalted butter, room temp
3-4 cups                     Powdered sugar
1 tsp.                          Pure vanilla extract
                                   Chopped walnuts (optional, for presentation)

In a stand mixer with fitted paddle, beat cream cheese until softened. Add butter and beat until smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar one cup at a time until fully incorporated. Beat in vanilla.