The Best-Ever Carrot Cake Recipe
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My Carrot Cake Recipe Counts As A Serving of Vegetables...
Carrot Cake. Home made carrot cake. WOW.
Why should you eat carrot cake? How about because it is a great source of fiber, vitamins, nuts and other nutrients? How about just because it is delicious!!!
I didn't know I loved carrot cake until I made this delicious recipe from Fulton's Pancake House in Ottawa, Ontario. I am not a professional baker, so mine is not always as pretty as the one shown in this picture but it is always delicious, nutritious and devoured by my family.
Does carrot cake really count as a serving of vegetables? I have no idea; let's just agree to think that it does!
Why should you eat carrot cake? How about because it is a great source of fiber, vitamins, nuts and other nutrients? How about just because it is delicious!!!
I didn't know I loved carrot cake until I made this delicious recipe from Fulton's Pancake House in Ottawa, Ontario. I am not a professional baker, so mine is not always as pretty as the one shown in this picture but it is always delicious, nutritious and devoured by my family.
Does carrot cake really count as a serving of vegetables? I have no idea; let's just agree to think that it does!
Contents at a Glance
- Do you like carrot cake?
- Fulton's Best-Ever Carrot Cake Recipe
- Boost The Nutrition Value Of Your Carrot...
- Maple Products are a Healthy Sugar Optio...
- More Carrot and Carrot Cake Recipes
- Real Vanilla Extract For The Best Flavou...
- The Presto Electric Saladshooter Slicer...
- Wow! Carrot Cake ~~ A YouTube Video
- Carrot Cake Recipes in the News!
"Vegetables are a must in a diet.
I suggest carrot cake,
zucchini bread
and pumpkin pie."
-- Jim Davis
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Fulton's Best-Ever Carrot Cake Recipe
You're going to love this one!
Fulton's Pancake House & Sugar Bush is a maple syrup farm located just outside of Ottawa, Ontario in Canada. Every year they have activities available during the spring running of the sap. The sap harvested from the Maple tree, in case you do not know it, is what they use to make maple syrup.
They also have a pancake house where you can buy pancakes and other related items. The pancakes are always delicious so I was thrilled to find this recipe printed in the Ottawa Citizen one year. Since then, it has become 'my' carrot cake recipe. We love it!
This cake serves 10 to 12 people.
Cake Ingredients:
They also have a pancake house where you can buy pancakes and other related items. The pancakes are always delicious so I was thrilled to find this recipe printed in the Ottawa Citizen one year. Since then, it has become 'my' carrot cake recipe. We love it!
This cake serves 10 to 12 people.
Cake Ingredients:
- Oil and flour to grease a 10-inch tube or angel food cake pan
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, unbleached if possible
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 large eggs
- 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated maple sugar or brown sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup sour milk
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 1 1/2 cups crushed, well-drained pineapple
- 1 cup grated coconut (optional)
Ingredients for the maple icing:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 8 ounces or 225 grams of cream cheese
- 2 teaspoons of maple syrup
- 3 cups of icing sugar
For The Garnish:
- Granulated maple sugar.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly brush oil on tube pan; sprinkle with flour, knocking out excess.
- In a bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda and salt.
- In another large mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, maple sugar, oil and sour milk. With a rubber scraper, stir in carrots, pineapple and coconut; fold in dry ingredients until well combined.
- Pour mixture into prepared pan and bake 1 hour. Test for doneness using a toothpick inserted into the centre, which should come out clean. Remove from oven and leave cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes Use a table knife to separate cake from pan; invert onto a plate. Cool completely before spreading maple icing on the cake.
- For the icing, in the bowl of an electric mixer combine icing ingredients and beat until smooth and thick enough to spread on the cake. To garnish, sprinkle iced cake with maple sugar.
Boost The Nutrition Value Of Your Carrot Cake
To give carrot cake an extra nutrition boost, use mild extra-virgin olive oil instead of vegetable oil. You can also use whole-wheat flour instead of white flour since carrot cake is a lot denser and moister than most cakes. The flour will also add a nutty flavor.
"Instead of icing it, I just spread some cream cheese on a slice. Less sugar, and just as yummy as it is sweet enough without extra icing in my opinion."
-- Cat Can Cook
Maple Products are a Healthy Sugar Option
Pure Canadian maple syrup is good for 3 years, if unopened and 1 year in the refrigerator once it is opened. Maple products can be used in cooking or baking, in coffee or tea, with hot or cold cereal, on pancakes, waffles and French toast. You can substitute it anywhere you would use sugar.
Maple products, in Canada, are available at health food stores, at the sugar bush and sometimes at stalls at farmers' markets. If you do not have access locally to maple products, you can order them directly from Amazon.
Maple products, in Canada, are available at health food stores, at the sugar bush and sometimes at stalls at farmers' markets. If you do not have access locally to maple products, you can order them directly from Amazon.
More Carrot and Carrot Cake Recipes
- John Barricelli's Carrot Cake Recipe As Shared on Martha Stewart Living
- John Barricelli's Carrot Cake at Martha Stewart's website.
- The Joy of Baking Carrot Cake Recipe
- Moist and flavorful with grated carrots and apples it is frosted with a delicious cream cheese frosting.
- Paul Deen's Carrot Cake Recipe on The Food Network
- Paula Deen's Sweet Baby Jack Carrot Cake from the Food Network and Paula's Party.
- Carrot Cake Recipe by The Barefoot Contessa From The Food Network
- Barefoot Contessa's Carrot Cake Cupcakes from Barefoot Contessa's Parties on The Food Network.
- Carrot Recipes From Carrotrecipes.net
- A collection of recipes with Carrot Recipes as the primary ingredient.
- Healthy Carrot Cake From The Star
- So, do try your hand at making a carrot cake as the recipes are a dime a dozen in cookbooks and you can also source recipes online.
- BBC Good Food Carrot Cake Recipe
- The lightest and most enticingly moist carrot cake you will ever come across - just find a good hiding place for it!
- Giada De Laurentiis's Carrot Cake Recipe on The Food Network
- Giada De Laurentiis's Parma-style Carrot Cake from the Food Network and Everyday Italian.
- Healthy Cakes - How to Adapt Recipes and Enjoy Healthy Cakes
- Here is an excellent blog about making healthy cakes. If you do not make them yourself, you just never know what might be in them...including unhealthy fats and additives. Elizabeth Martyn gives a great number of suggestions to make your cakes healthy.
Real Vanilla Extract For The Best Flavour
However, vanilla comes in several price points -- I have included an affordable one and an extravagant one! Which one is for you?
Only Real Vanilla Extract Will Do When You Are Making This Amazing Carrot Cake
Important!
While enjoying a playdate at a friend's house, my son Ian was served up a muffin. He enjoyed it thoroughly and politely asked for another and loved it, too. When the Mom of the house asked, "Would you like another CARROT muffin?" he almost fell off his chair.
Carrot cake is a great opportunity to feed your children this bright-orange, nutrition-packed vegetable. The idea of carrot cake is off putting to some children but once they have tasted it, they often love it.
Carrot cake is a great opportunity to feed your children this bright-orange, nutrition-packed vegetable. The idea of carrot cake is off putting to some children but once they have tasted it, they often love it.
Make The Job Easier With These Carrot Peelers And The Presto Professional SaladShooter Electric Slicer/Shredder!
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My cousin Willie introduced me to the Presto SaladShooter. Every time we have to grate cheese for a recipe at his house, he pulls out this great tool. Whenever we use it to grate cheese for supper, Willie makes us grate extra for his freezer...thanks, Willie!
Anyway, I highly recommend it. I broke parts of my food processor several times when grating cheese before Willie introduced me to this item. He says that it is possible to break it but that the replacement parts are readily available from the manufacturer. Having said that, I have not managed to break mine yet! It is still going strong!
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Wow! Carrot Cake ~~ A YouTube Video
This young man's carrot cake recipe has been in the family for 100 years!
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Orange KitchenAid Artisan 5-Quart Stand Mixer
These mixers are available in a wide range of colors so go ahead, match your kitchen or your carrot cake!
Now here is a fun mixer! This one is a bright orange, carrot-colored Kitchenaid unit. Of course you know that this mixer comes in an assortment of colors and that it is a phenomenal piece of kitchen equipment. People who have this mixer rave about its quality and durability. If you buy one, I am sure you will have no regrets as this one should last a lifetime.
To read my review of the Kitchenaid stand mixer click right here. To look into buying one from Amazon, click here.
A Kitchenaid stand mixer is one that you will have forever. Carrot Cake Recipes in the News!
- Recipe Finder: Carrot soufflé once-a-year deal
- By Charlotte Durham, Special to The Commercial Appeal While most folks are singing "Auld Lang Syne," I'm usually wondering how far into the new year we'll get before someone requests the Piccadilly Cafeteria carrot soufflé recipe. This year, not far.
- Food For Thought: A recipe trip through time
- What I discovered going through her files, was that my mother and I clipped the same recipes ? the Venetian Carrot Cake from the New York Times in 2007, for example. I'm positive neither she nor I ever made it, but I know, as a daughter knows her ...
- – Cheryl A. Davis, Modesto
- Margie Allen of Sacramento was looking for a way to make cookies out of a box of carrot cake mix. We recently featured a basic cookie recipe using a cake mix with suggested variations. Today the Mailbox has a cookie recipe calling for a carrot cake mix ...
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. If You Want To Take The Easy Way Out, Use These To Decorate Your Carrot Cake
You can click on any of the following pictures to purchase these decorations for your carrot cake directly from Amazon.
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Fulton's Pancake House
- Fulton's - 4 Season Destination in Pakenham, near Ottawa, Ontario
- The recipe on this page is from Fulton's. They produce maple products like those used on this page in the Maple Syrup capital of Ontario on the fringe of Ottawa, Canada's captital city.
Of Course, You Can Always Take A Shortcut and Order Your Carrot Cake From Grandma Olesen Through Amazon!
Or Buy a Carrot Cake Mix!
Like this Canterbury Naturals Carrot Cake Mix (Pack of 6)
People are blogging about their carrot cake!
- Recipe Finder: Carrot soufflé once-a-year deal
- By Charlotte Durham, Special to The Commercial Appeal While most folks are singing "Auld Lang Syne," I'm usually wondering how far into the new year we'll get before someone requests the Piccadilly Cafeteria carrot soufflé recipe. This year, not far.
- Food For Thought: A recipe trip through time
- What I discovered going through her files, was that my mother and I clipped the same recipes ? the Venetian Carrot Cake from the New York Times in 2007, for example. I'm positive neither she nor I ever made it, but I know, as a daughter knows her ...
- – Cheryl A. Davis, Modesto
- Margie Allen of Sacramento was looking for a way to make cookies out of a box of carrot cake mix. We recently featured a basic cookie recipe using a cake mix with suggested variations. Today the Mailbox has a cookie recipe calling for a carrot cake mix ...
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MareeT
Nov 29, 2011 @ 7:19 pm | delete
- So many good recipes and goodies here! The carrot cake sounds wonderful!
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- Came back to try your wonderful recipes.
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- What an awesome looking recipe. I think I'll have to try it.
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- I've never seen a carrot cake recipe with pineapple in it. Sounds pretty good.
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- I love carrot cake. The first time someone eats mine, they usually laugh because of the large carrot shavings, but they always ask for a piece to take home. LOL I've never heard of maple syrup on carrot cake-- I'll have to try it! Thanks!
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- I love carrot cake, thanks for the recipe and healthy tips.
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- Love your lens. You forgot Pound Cake.
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- Thank you! I just finished making this awesome carrot cake and wonderful icing. I will definately make this again and put in my box of favorite recipes. The only thing that I changed or added was, I did not use the coconut and I added about a cup of crushed walnuts to the batter with the carrots and pineapple. This is the first time I attempted to make carrot cake and it turned out wonderful and moist and very easy. Thank you again for sharing this wonderful carrot cake with me and many others. I will share this recipe with my family and friends for parties and picnics.
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- I am very glad that you enjoyed it. Now you've made me want to make it again soon...
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- Cake is not my area of expertise, but something attracted me to your lens and now I feel like baking. That's what makes Squidoo unique, loved the lens...
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