Hiding vegetables in desserts is a brilliant way of reducing your sugar intake without giving up sweet treats. And there’s no vegie so popular as the humble carrot, adding a subtle sweetness and moisture to your cakes. Here, we’ve pulled together some of our favourites for your inspiration. Let’s get baking!
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Carrot cake with white chocolate icing
Carrot cake with white chocolate icing
The only thing better than a traditional carrot cake is one with chocolate. And this recipe with a rich sweet white chocolate icing is naughty but nice.
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Sugar-free carrot cakes with date cream cheese frosting
Sugar-free carrot cakes with date cream cheese frosting
These delicious little carrot cakes make the perfect after school snack. The kids won’t even know they’re sugar-free!
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Gluten-free carrot cake with orange frosting
Cooking is full of classic pairings, and carrot and orange is one of the best. This moist carrot cake with orange frosting is moist, dense and delicious, and, as a bonus, gluten-free.
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Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
You will love this spiced carrot cake, made extra tasty and moist by its layers of rich cream cheese frosting, perfect for morning tea.
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Classic carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
This dense, moist carrot cake is full of nutty goodness and topped with a delicious lemon cream-cheese frosting.
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Gluten-free carrot cake recipe
Cooking is full of classic pairings and carrot cake with cream cheese is one of the best. This moist cake is dense and delicious, and gluten-free too.
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Carrot cakes
These mini carrot cakes are decorated in a chequerboard pattern with buttercream and fondant sections from licorice all sorts.
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Carrot cake slice
Lightly spiced with cinnamon, this carrot cake slice is always popular. Piping the decorations is easy if you use a little sandwich bag with the corner snipped off.
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Moist carrot cake
Carrot cake is always a winner, and the addition of a little mixed spice to this recipe takes it to a new level. This gluten free version is super moist and perfect for the kids’ lunch boxes or after school snack.
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Almond carrot cake
This dense, moist almond carrot cake has a delicious lemon cream cheese frosting. If you prefer, you can use orange juice and zest in place of lemon in both the cake and frosting.
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Heavenly carrot cake
It’s the mixture of spices, a blend of allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, coriander and ginger, that makes this carrot cake so heavenly.
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Carrot cake
No carrot cake is complete without walnuts and cream cheese frosting and this one is no different.
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Golden oaty carrot cookies
These little fibre-packed cookies are the perfect for a morning or afternoon treat.
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Boiled carrot loaf
Put the kettle on and enjoy a thick buttered slice of this lovely spiced carrot cake.
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Date, carrot and honey loaf
Naturally sweet and perfectly fluffy, prepare this golden date, carrot and honey loaf for your family and friends. Enjoy your loaf warm, sliced and with a cup of tea any time of the day.
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Carrot cake with caramelised pecans
You’ll love this moist and easy classic carrot cakee with a silky smooth cream cheese frosting and crunchy caramelised pecans
