30 Best Carrot Cake recipes, including classic carrot layer cakes, sheet cakes, bars, cheesecake, cinnamon rolls, ice cream, fudge and more!
Carrot cake is a cake that has carrots baked into it. It often has pineapple and nuts baked into it too. Many versions are topped with a cream cheese icing.
There are so many unique ways to bake carrot cakes and other carrot cake themed desserts. Read on to view 30 best carrot cake recipes. Bookmark your favorites to make when the mood for carrot cake strikes!
One-Layer Carrot Cake by Recipe Girl: This classic cake is the perfect, simple cake to serve for spring celebrations!
Amish Carrot Cake by Amish Heritage: This cake is made with crushed pineapple and pecans and topped with a delectable cream cheese frosting.
Brown Butter Carrot Cake by Handle the Heat: This cake has tons of cream cheese frosting, and it’s so moist, tender, sweet, and delicious that even carrot cake haters will LOVE it!
Carrot Bundt Cake by Shugary Sweets: This cake is wrapped around a cheesecake filling and covered with cream cheese frosting.
To-Die-For Carrot Cake by Mom on Timeout: This cake recipe receives rave reviews for it’s unbelievable moistness and delicious flavor! It’s so easy to make, and as an added bonus… there’s no oil or butter.
Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting by Celebrating Sweets: The addition of brown sugar to a typical cream cheese frosting makes these cupcakes extra special. These cupcakes are always met with rave reviews.
Chocolate Chip Carrot Cake by Recipe Girl: This carrot cake has a bit of chocolate added to it. Miniature chocolate chips are used so the chocolate is spread around the cake proportionately.
Copycat Costco Carrot Cake by Hungarian Chef: This cake has a spiced aroma and sweet nutty flavor, which makes it truly an indulgent treat! The moist and fluffy texture of the cake pairs perfectly with its rich taste.
Carrot Cake Fudge by Inside Bru Crew Life: This decadent dessert has a layer of carrot cake and cream cheese fudge, plus colorful M&M candies on top.
Small Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting by Baking Mischief: This cake will serve four very generously or make six smaller servings. It’s soft and fluffy, with just the right level of spice, and the entire thing is just smothered in a killer cream cheese frosting.
Paula Deen Carrot Cake by Passion for Savings: This is a layered cake with loads of shredded carrots, warm spices, all baked and topped with a cream cheese frosting.
Carrot Cake Ice Cream by Flouring Kitchen: This ice cream is creamy, tastes exactly like carrot cake, and you don’t need an ice cream maker!
Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting by Recipe Girl: These cookies are a soft, spiced carrot cake cookie adorned with sweet cream cheese- white chocolate frosting.
Carrot Cake Cobbler by Lauren’s Latest: This cobbler is crispy and crunchy on the outside, and soft and tender on the inside. It’s the ultimate dessert with a cake like center and hot caramel sauce on the bottom!
Carrot Cake Pie by Crazy for Crust: This is the perfect pie for any time you want carrot cake…but you want pie too.
Mini Carrot Cake Cheesecakes by Recipe Girl: These mini cheesecakes are topped with cream cheese icing and a cute little marzipan carrots.
Carrot Cake Roll by Dessert Now Dinner Later: Spiced carrot cake is rolled up with the BEST cream cheese frosting inside. It’s beautiful, delicious, and easy to make.
Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls by Mike Bakes NYC: In this recipe, there are carrots incorporated into the brioche dough, and both the dough and the filling are perfectly spiced.
Carrot Cake Cheesecake by The Domestic Rebel: This is a marbled dessert featuring creamy cheesecake and spiced carrot cake all in one dessert!
Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies by Bake, Eat Repeat: This sweet treat is basically a chewy, oatmeal raisin sandwich cookie, but with carrot cake flavors.
Great Grandma’s Carrot Cake by RecipeBoy: This is the best classic, wonderful carrot cake with great childhood memories.
Best Carrot Cake Recipe by GrandBaby Cakes: This cake is unbelievably moist and packed with fresh carrots, juicy pineapple, a cozy mix of warm spices, and topped off with a to-die-for homemade brown butter cream cheese frosting.
Carrot Loaf Cake by RecipeBoy: This is an awesome, easy cake recipe with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting!
Carrot Cake Cheesecake Cake by Recipe Girl: A nice layer of cheesecake in the middle makes this cake 99.8% better than regular carrot cake.
Carrot Cake Bars with Cheesecake Swirl by Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt: These bars are made completely from scratch and have a blondie feel about them. There’s a generous swirl of cheesecake in them instead of adding a cream cheese frosting to the top of the bars.
Carrot Sheet Cake by Recipes For Holidays: This is a tender and delicious carrot snack cake with cream cheese frosting!
Gingered Carrot Cake by Recipe Girl: This is a delicious two-layer carrot cake flavored with plenty of fresh ginger and covered with an orange-flavored cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Carrot Cake Trifle by Tastes of Lizzy T: Spruce up a carrot cake mix by layering it with walnuts and a homemade cream cheese mixture.
Cheesecake Swirl Carrot Bundt Cake by Sally’s Baking Addiction: Find cheesecake swirls when you cut into this deliciously moist and perfectly spiced carrot Bundt cake!
Carrot Cake Bars by Gimme Some Oven: These bars are easy to make, perfectly moist and lightly spiced and full of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting.
