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• Carrot cake is a sweet, dense spice cake made with grated carrots. The carrots add flavor and since they contain a lot of water, they make the cake unusually moist. The traditional frosting is made from cream cheese, but any or no icing can be used.

• Fast Facts

  1. Commonly glazed or topped with white icing, cream cheese icing and/or walnuts
  2. Popular as loaf, sheet cake or cupcakes
  3. Carrots have been used in cakes since the Medieval period
  4. Closer in construction to a quick bread than a cake
  5. Can be easily made vegan
  6. Variations: Nuts, raisins, crushed pineapple, coconut

• Carrot Cake Ingredients

  1. Carrots
  2. Vegetable Oil
  3. Flour
  4. Eggs
  5. Cinnamon
  6. Sugar
  7. Salt
  8. Baking Soda
  9. Cream Cheese Frosting

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