Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Easy Carrot Cake

Easy Carrot Cake. Carrot Cake with PHILLY Cream Cheese Icing. Recipe of the Day Pat's Award Winning Carrot Cake. A moist carrot cake made with both baby food carrots and grated carrots, plus chopped pecans and coconut, baked in a Bundt pan.

It's covered in a homemade cream cheese frosting for the perfect, classic cake. And with so many ways to make this recipe your own, it's seriously the best carrot cake around! Carrot cake is a rather dense cake instead of a light and airy cake, hence there is more flexibility for mix-in ingredients. You can cook Easy Carrot Cake using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Easy Carrot Cake

1. You need 1 1/4 cup of miracle whip.
2. It's 1 box of gluten-free yellow cake mix (reg. works too).
3. Prepare 4 of eggs or equivalent of egg substitute.
4. It's 1/4 cup of cold water.
5. Prepare 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
6. You need 2 cups of finely shredded carrots.
7. It's 8 oz of cream cheese.
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of vanilla.
9. You need 3 1/2 cups of powdered sugar.

If you want nuts or raisins in your cake, go ahead and add them. Shredded coconut and coconut flakes would be another great mix-in for this carrot cake. This easy carrot cake is a family favorite. It's simple to make, pretty much fool proof, and perfect for parties or potlucks.

Easy Carrot Cake step by step

1. For cake: heat oven to 350 degrees..
2. Beat miracle whip, cake mix, eggs, water, & cinnamon until well blended. Stir in carrots. Pour into greased 13x9 baking pan..
3. Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely..
4. For frosting: beat cream cheese & vanilla at medium speed with electric mixer until well blended. Gradually add sugar, beating until light & fluffy. Frost cake..

I can't wait for you to try it! A couple of years ago, I shared this Small Carrot Cake recipe, which is a miniaturized version of my Mom's (amazing, wonderful, perfect) carrot cake. This Carrot Cake recipe starts with a spice cake mix and ends in pure delight. We use real carrots in our carrot cake and finish with a delicious cream cheese icing! This ridiculously simple carrot cake uses a box of spice cake mix and fresh carrots to create magic.