National Carrot Cake Day

CARROT CAKE DAY

The Only Recipe You Will Ever Need

By Caro

It's NATIONAL CARROT CAKE DAY!  Easily a favourite bake in most households, but finding a perfect recipe is not so simple.  Look no further - here's my classic recipe for the layer cake with orange cream cheese frosting.  So versatile, it can be used to make layer cakes, bundts, cupcakes, squares, mini bundts & even Gluten free too.  Add raisins or nuts if you like.

**Thank you Diana for trying lots of my recipes – your photos are lovely.

Overhead shot of a cream cheese topped carrot bundt cake with pecans on top, on a red and glass cake stand and with Easter Spring time decorations.

We used my recipe for a competition in Facebook group – Great British Bake Off Fans. They really did my recipe proud. Here are just a few pics (Andrea, Diana, Sally, Shona, Victoria & Alison)

collage of readers carrot cakes in different styling. — *Carrot cake made by my readers (Andrea, Diana, Sally, Shona, Victoria & Alison)*

So why not have a try of my recipe now, and get yourself prepared for Easter baking, (or anytime really – why not? 🙂 )

Video Of Making Carrot Cake

Old photo of a deep 3 layer carrot cake with lots of cream cheese frosting on top and side sin peaks, with handmade fondant carrots on top and bottom.

CLASSIC LAYERED CARROT CAKE With Cream Cheese Frosting

Try my original recipe, that is for 3 or 4 layers, so craming in even more cream cheese filling! OR, you can go minimalistic and make 2 deep layers (see below).

Go to Classic Carrot Cake recipe

Deep 2 payer carrot cake with cream cheese filling and frosting on top, with pecans and faux carrot on top, with Easter eggs around. — *Classic Carrot Cake*

Click ‘download’ to save the recipe to your phone or computer.

EASTER-CARROT-CAKE-With-Fondant-Carrots-Tutor Download

Overhead shot of a carrot cake baked in a budt pan with cream cheese frosting down the groves and set on a dinning table with titel. — *Using my classic Carrot Cake recipe in a bundt tin*

The classic recipe above, can be used to make a large bundt or mini bundt and mini loave cakes, like Diana did in the photo below. Note the Gluten free recipe is for a slightly smaller bundt tin size but more of a standard size.

Rectangular basket of mini carrot cake loaves and mini bundt cakes with frosting and tiny carrot toppers. — *Diana’s mini carrot bundt and mini loaf cakes, using the Classic Carrot Cake recipe*

Shot of fondant carrots without greens and titled fondant carrots.

HOW TO MAKE FONDANT CARROTS WITHOUT A MOULD

Let me show you just how simple it really is to make these cute fondant carrots with my step-by-step photo tutorial. Great for cupcakes or on larger cakes and can be made weeks ahead of time.

Go To Fondant Carrot Tutorial

Download the fondant tutorail by clicking below:

HOW TO MAKE FONDANT CARROTS WITHOUT MOULDS Download

Mini carrot bundt cakes decorated and on a cooling rack.

Mini Carrot Bundt Cakes With Orange Cream Cheese Frosting

Mini Carrot Bundt Cakes are a smaller scale version of my classic Carrot cake, perfectly paired with an orange cream cheese frosting. Perfect for Easter and Spring simple baking & using up those mini Easter eggs.

Perfect beginner baker recipe

Go to Mini Carrot Bundt Cakes

GLUTEN FREE CARROT BUNDT CAKE With Cream Cheese Frosting

My original carrot cake recipe, reduced a little and made using Gluten free ingredients. Also includes a little video showing how to use lining paste for an easy removal of the bundt cake and how I frosted the cake.

Go to Gluten Free Carrot Bundt Cake recipe

To save to your phone or computer, click the ‘download’ button below:

GLUTEN FREE CARROT BUNDT CAKE 2022 Download

Carrot Cake With Orange Cream Cheese Frosting

MAKE-UP THEMED CARROT CAKE With Cream Cheese Frosting

Same classic carrot cake but with a smoother frosting finish and make-up themed fondant decorations. So not just for Easter & Spring-time baking and can be used for ANY style of cake.

Recipe to come.

Click ‘download’ below, to save to your phone or computer

MAKE-up-carrot-cake-tutorial-doc Download

CARROT CAKE CUPCAKES

Old photo from Diana of layer carrot and mini bundt carrot cakes with fondant carrots and cream cheese frosting.

Here’s the classic recipe made using cupcakes and muffins cakes (thanks for photo 2 & 3 Diana!)

Go to Carrot Cake recipe

Close angled shot of carrot cake square pieces.

CARROT CAKE SLICES

With Orange cream Cheese Frosting

A smaller version of my classic Carrot Cake, but in a tray bake, making squares, or slices. Easy baking!

Go to Carrot Cake Slices.

For more Easter & Spring themed recipes – click to go to Easter & Spring recipes

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