This is soooo good!  I can’t believe there’s carrots in it!
Little Helper
Harvest fresh carrots from your garden to make this carrot cake that is a perfect cool weather dessert.
 
(This post contains and affiliate link or two for your convenience) 

Carroty Cake Harvest fresh carrots from your garden to make this ultimate fall treat.

 

Carroty Carrot Cake 

Use fresh carrots from your garden if you’ve grown them, if not store bought is totally fine!  No nuts, no pineapple, just carrots.  That’s all a carrot cake really needs after all.  Well, that and heaps of cream cheese frosting.  I mean, right?

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 Cups Sugar
  • 1 Cup Apple Sauce
  • 3 Large Eggs
  • 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. Baking Soda
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 tsp. Salt
  • 14 tsp. Ground Nutmeg
  • 3 Cups Shredded Carrots

 

Carroty Cake Harvest fresh carrots from your garden to make this ultimate fall treat.

 

Directions:

1. Prepare two 8″ round cake pans by greasing lightly, and sprinkling with flour
2. Preheat oven to 350 F
3. Mix sugar, applesauce and eggs in LARGE mixing bowl. 
4. Add the remaining ingredients to the applesauce mix – EXCEPT for the carrots and the Cream Cheese Frosting. Mix well
5. Stir  the grated / shredded carrots into the batter.
6. Use a scoop to evenly spread the batter between the two cake pans.  Lightly tap the bottoms of the pans to remove bubbles.
7. Bake for approx. 35 minutes until cake is ready, and cool on wire racks.
8. When cakes are cool, place bottom layer on plate, scoop cream cheese icing  onto first layer and spread around. Place top layer, and continue to frost the entire cake.  Refrigerate
Extra Carroty Carrot Cake perfect cool weather dessert
 
Love this recipe?  You’ll absolutely love our Great Food Ideas Pin Board
 
 
 

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Explore More

Egg Carton Super Bees!

Googly eyes, recycled egg cartons, and neon.  A super fun inspired by nature Kids’ Craft.  What more could you ask for?          Yep!  We’ve been crafting with

Life is Better in the Garden Printable Wall Art

Life is Better in the Garden Printable Wall Art, because Life is Better in the Garden, and Printable Wall Art that's free to download is an excellent way to decorate.

I think it’s fair to say that we’re all ready for a little garden time, because, you know what – Life is Better in the Garden. A little spring decorating

Apple Berry Stew

Apple Berry Stew Perfect for Healthy Snacking

Perfect for Healthy Snacking and oh so easy to make.  Heck, make it every day!   The Bliss of Berry Picking What, with all the mosquitoes, blackflies and sunburns?  Is