Carrot Cake Recipe with Brown Butter Frosting
May 30, 2025 01:19 PM
This classic carrot cake recipe is layered and iced with fluffy, nutty brown butter frosting. With choose your own adventure add-ins, it’s the only carrot cake recipe you will ever need. Looking for a carrot cake without cream cheese? This is it!
It’s hard to create a “best ever” recipe when people have so many personal opinions on what makes a cake great. Especially when it comes to raisins and cream cheese frosting, carrot cake can be downright polarizing.
What makes this the best carrot cake recipe is that it is infinitely adaptable, forgiving, and checks a lot of the boxes of a fantastic cake.
Love nuts? Go ahead and fold them into the batter (try toasting them first!). Hate raisins? Skip ‘em all together.
Forever moist, not too sweet, full of flavor - this is the type of cake you start planning to make again even before the last bites are gone. It’s the type of cake that you are willing to lose your dignity over fighting for the last heavenly slice.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cups walnut or almond flour
- 2 teas baking powder
- 1 teas baking soda
- 1 teas cinnamon
- ½ teas salt
- ¼ teas nutmeg
- ¼ teas all spice
- ¾ cup canola oil
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup crushed pineapple or applesauce
- 3 cups shredded carrots
Brown Butter Frosting
- 1 cup unsalted butter, plus 2 tablespoons
- 2 to 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 to 3 tablespoon milk
- 2 teas pure vanilla extract
Prep Time:
45 minutes
Cook Time:
35 minutes
Total Time:
80 minutes
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