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    The Easiest, Best Carrot Cake Recipe

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    slice of carrot cake beside a cake stand with a bundt cake

    This is the best carrot cake recipe! The moist Bundt cake is bursting with the flavor of carrots, pecans and cinnamon. It has been a family favorite for more than 30 years. No one can believe the secret ingredient is baby food carrots!

    My mom has the best carrot cake recipe, made with baby food — of all things.

    slice of carrot cake beside a cake stand with a bundt cake

    I always thought that was the funniest thing when I was growing up. Who puts baby food in carrot cake?

    I do — and I think you will, too, once you give this recipe a try.

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    With this recipe, you get all the delicious carrot flavor without having to grate any vegetables.

    slice of carrot cake on a white plate

    Another thing that’s different about this carrot cake recipe is that you don’t frost it with cream cheese icing. I’m generally a fan of cream cheese icing, but this cake doesn’t need it.

    carrot cake in a bundt pan

    It’s very moist straight out of the Bundt pan, but you can always make a powdered sugar glaze if you want to make it a little sweeter.

    Glaze makes everything better!

    carrot cake on a table with yellow daisies in the background

    Another thing I like about this carrot cake recipe is how quick it is to mix up. It will take about 10 minutes, and you don’t even have to pull out your big mixer for it.

    slice of carrot cake beside a cake stand with a bundt cake

    I love sharing our favorite family recipes, like chicken pot pie, Grandma’s baked beans, fried wontons, butterscotch haystacks and the homemade lasagna that led to a marriage proposal.

    I hope you’ll enjoy this carrot cake recipe as much as our family does.

    Carrot cake in a Bundt pan

    Nutty Glazed Carrot Cake

    This moist cake is bursting with the flavor of carrots, pecans and cinnamon. It has been a family favorite for more than 30 years. No one can believe the secret ingredient is baby food carrots!
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 1 hr
    Total Time 1 hr 10 mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12 servings
    Calories 356 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 2 cups self-rising flour
    • 2 cups sugar
    • 1 cup chopped pecans
    • 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
    • 3 eggs
    • 1 cup vegetable oil
    • 3 4- ounce jars of Stage 2 or Stage 3 baby food carrots
    • 1 cup powdered sugar
    • 1/4 cup milk
    • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a Bundt pan.
    • In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, nuts and cinnamon. Stir to combine.
    • Add eggs, oil and baby food carrots and stir until well incorporated
    • Pour batter in greased and floured Bundt pan. Bake for 1 hour at 325 degrees, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
    • Allow cake to cool in the pan, then invert onto a cake plate.
    • Once cake has cooled, mix powdered sugar, milk and vanilla together, until smooth. Pour over the cake.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 356kcalCarbohydrates: 63gProtein: 5gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 24mgPotassium: 159mgFiber: 2gSugar: 44gVitamin A: 3255IUVitamin C: 3.3mgCalcium: 35mgIron: 0.8mg
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    slice of carrot cake beside a cake stand with a bundt cake

    Filed Under: Cooking, Desserts, Easy Recipes Tagged With: dessert, easy dessert, family recipes

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    1. Mrs Major Hoff

      September 21, 2015 at 11:29 pm

      Yummy! Thanks so much for stopping by the link party last week!

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