Carrot Cake Bars
Mar 09, 2024 10:22 AM
These carrot cake bars are packed with shredded carrots, warm spices, and pecans and topped with cream cheese frosting. They are soft, moist, and chewy and taste like a cross between carrot cake and a buttery blondie.
Why you’ll love this recipe
Flavor: Butter, brown sugar, vanilla, warm spices, and pecans add lots of flavor.
Texture: The bars are part cake part blondie so they bake up a bit more moist, dense, and buttery than a cake.
Ease: No difficult techniques or fancy equipment needed.
Ingredients:
Bars
- ¾ cup (172g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
- ½ cup (107g) packed brown sugar, light or dark
- ½ cup (100g) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
- 1½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1⅓ cup (170g) all purpose flour, spooned and leveled
- 2½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 scant teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup (100g) shredded carrots, loosely measured, not packed
- ½ cup (65g) finely chopped toasted pecans
Frosting
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 4 tablespoons (57g) unsalted butter, softened
- 1½ cups (187g) powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- finely chopped toasted pecans, optional garnish
Prep Time:
30 minutes
Cook Time:
23 minutes
Total Time:
53 minutes
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