I don’t just love carrot cake at Easter—I could honestly eat it every single day! 🤩 And today I’m super excited to share my recipe for the world’s best carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!
This cake is truly out of this world—moist, fluffy, and packed with flavor! The secret lies in the perfect blend of spices that give the carrot cake its unique taste (more on that in a moment!) and the crunchy walnuts, which add a delightful texture. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water!
Here’s what you’ll need for this carrot cake:

- Carrots, peeled and grated
- Walnuts, finely chopped
- Oil
- Eggs
- Sugar
- Orange zest
- Spices like freshly grated nutmeg & ginger, allspice
- And of course, flour, baking powder, and a pinch of salt
And for the super tasty frosting you will need:
- soft butter
- cream cheese
- orange juice
- powdered sugar
The spices are the real game-changer for my carrot cake —especially the allspice! Wait, allspice? Yes, allspice! It’s also called piment and adds that extra special kick.
Here’s my tip to make it irresistibly fluffy and delicious:
Whisk the oil, sugar, and eggs together for at least 8 minutes until light and airy. Yep, that’s the trick!
Since I like to be efficient in the kitchen, I peel and grate the carrots while the mixer does its thing. The fastest way? Use a food processor—it’ll have the carrots grated in no time. Then, I quickly chop the walnuts and preheat the oven. Efficiency at its finest, just the way I like it.
I can’t tell you how easy it was to whip up this amazing carrot cake. With my trusted recipe and a few simple steps, it was already baking in the oven.
And the cream cheese frosting?
A dream! So creamy, so tempting—it’s hard to resist. The frosting is super quick to make, too—I just use the same basic recipe I use for my cinnamon roll frosting.
One important tip: Please pay attention to the baking time! Every oven is different, so make sure to do the good old toothpick test to check if it’s done. You don’t want an underbaked cake—that would be such a shame.
So, all you need to do now is to bake and enjoy every bite!
Oh, and I like to bake mine in a loaf pan—it makes it easy to slice and serve.
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is super easy to make and super tasty!
simple-
Prep time: 20 minutes -
Baking time: 1 hours -
Total time: 1 hours 20 minutes
Ingredients
carrot cake | |
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300 g | Carrots, peeled and grated |
100 g | walnuts, chopped |
3 | eggs |
250 ml | sunflower oil |
200 g | brown sugar |
200 g | all-purpose flour |
1 | TBSP baking powder |
1 | generous pinch of salt |
1 | small piece of ginger (thumbsize) |
1 | good pinch of ground nutmeg |
0.5 | tsp ground piment |
1 | TBSP orange juice |
cream cheese frosting | |
175 g | cream cheese |
70 g | soft butter |
1 | TBSP Orange juice |
3 | TBSP powdered sugar |
Utensils
- baking loaf
Steps of preparation
Carrot cake
- Beat the oil, sugar and eggs until fluffy, at least 8 minutes
In the meantime, peel and grate the carrots - Chop walnuts finely and preheat the oven to 180 degrees top/bottom heat and place baking paper in a loaf pan
- Mix the flour with the baking powder, then add the flour and spices to the oil-sugar & egg mixture
- Grate in the ginger and add it with the orange juice
Mix everything together and then add the carrots and walnuts and mix together briefly. - Pour into the prepared loaf pan and bake at 180 degrees for about 60 minutes
- Be sure to do a chopstick test! Otherwise bake for another 5 minutes.
- Allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes and then remove the cake from the tin and let it cool
- When the cake has cooled, prepare the frosting.
Cream cheese frosting
- Mix the cream cheese, soft butter, 2 tablespoons of orange juice and sifted powdered sugar together well with a whisk until a glaze forms.
Then pour carefully the icing over the carrot cake, decorate as you wish and enjoy!
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