How to Bake the Best Moist Carrot Cake You've Ever Tasted

This moist carrot cake is hands down the best. I’d say it’s in my top 5 of cake favorites. Don’t ask me what the other 4 are though. haha. In all seriousness, this is the only and best carrot cake recipe you will ever need. A new friend of mine, Caitlin of Sweetlifeonfourth shared this recipe with me. I needed some Easter dessert ideas and she suggested this recipe from Stacy of dfarm.tx. I am so glad she did! Thanks Caitlin! She also has the cutest vintage store on IG, Birchgrovehome.

It is truly delicious even for someone like me who wouldn’t have ever thought of making carrot cake. I guess the thought of carrot cake never sounded appealing, so I never ventured to even trying it. This recipe isn’t sickly sweet, has a subtle and delicate carrot taste and is very moist. I’ve now converted my whole family to loving this cake. :) This recipe is also adaptable! You can make this recipe gluten-free. And some of my family argue it might be even better!

Recipe below.

INGREDIENTS

2 cups flour (you can sub 1 to 1 Gluten Free flour as well)

1.5 cups sugar

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

3 cups grated carrots

1 cup vegetable oil (I used olive oil)

4 eggs

ICING

*Note: (I made a cake, so I multiplied this recipe x4. It gave me plenty of icing for the filling and the extra decor. If you are making cupcakes just double this recipe.)

1/2 brick of cream cheese

1/4 cup butter

1 tsp. vanilla

2 cups powdered sugar

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CAKE

Preheat oven to 325*

2. Stir dry ingredients together, add carrots, oil and eggs. Add eggs in one at a time.

3. Beat on high with electric mixer for 2 mins.

4. Bake for 50-60 mins. (I set my timer for 40 mins and one cake was done. The other needed a couple more mins.) So periodically check.

*If baking cupcakes, bake for 30 mins.

5. Let cool before icing.

6. You can bake this cake ahead and freeze it. It will frost better frozen. If you do freeze it, pull out and frost a couple of hours before your event.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ICING