The Best Carrot Cake Ever [+ video recipe] - The Tortilla Channel (2024)

This carrot cake is by far the most delicious naturally sweeten, dairy-free cake and gluten-free.

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Made with freshly grated carrots and decorated with pecan. It is sweet and moist and rich and delicious. A must-try. Do you want to learn how you can make the best carrot cake ever? Let’s get started!

Carrot Cake Ingredients

If you want to make this cake recipe you need to put the following ingredients on your grocery list:

Carrots
Apples
Rice flour (white rice flour NOT glutinous rice flour)
Apple sauce
Coconut oil
Brown sugar
Baking powder
Eggs
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Pecan
Powdered sugar for decoration

You can find all the ingredient amounts and instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

How To Make Carrot Cake

It contains not only grated carrots but also grated apples, rice flour, eggs, brown sugar, coconut oil, baking powder, and pecans.

To make this recipe add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients in a bowl. Combine and stir and mix into a thick batter.

Preheat the oven to 370℉/180℃. Put the mixture in a springform and decorate with chopped pecans.

Let the cake bake in the oven for about 45-50 minutes. Start to check around the 35-minute mark to see if the cake is done yet.

A bamboo skewer needs to come out clean. Then take it out of the oven as you do not want a dry cake. Sprinkle some powdered sugar on the cake.

See How To Make A Carrot Cake

Want to see how easy it is to make a moist carrot cake in not time? Then watch the instructional video in the recipe card below.

The Best Carrot Cake

The best carrot cake I ever tasted was in Spain. In a bakery called Panaderia Pasteleria Y Cafeteria La Tahona in Alhaurin el Grande.

A lovely town in the South of Spain. We have visited this town many times when we go on vacation.

We would go to the Panaderia regularly for some coffee and tea and a bocadillo.

About a year ago a lovely lady Dinorah took over this bakery and she is one of the kindest people I ever met.

A couple of weeks ago we went to visit and got treated to the best carrot cake ever. We had it twice that week it was that good.

I asked for her recipe and she was kind enough to share it with me. I made a few small adjustments but it tastes so good that I am in love with this cake.

How To Store Carrot Cake

If you made this carrot cake and you have some leftover cake you have several ways to store it:

Room temperature – if you plan on serving this cake within a day or 2 you can store it at room temperature. Put the cake in an airtight food container, wrap it in foil or cut it into wedges and store them in resealable bags
Refrigerator – you can store the cake in the fridge but it is not recommended as the fridge has the tendency to dry out cakes. If you store cake in the fridge, make certain you wrap it with plastic wrap or store it in a food container for up to 3 days
Freezer – want to store it longer you can store the carrot cake in the freezer. Cut it into slices so you can take out what you need. Store in an airtight food container or wrap individually. You can store the cake for at least 3 months

More Great Baking Recipes

If you like to bake then check out some of my other favorite baking recipes as well:

Chocolate fruit-pecan pie
Mango Nutty Nutella pie galette
Dutch apple pie
Sweet organic apple pie galette
Sweet pull-apart chocolate and nuts bread
Apple cake

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The best carrot cake ever

Mireille

Serves: 8 Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 40-50 minutes

Want to learn how you can make the best carrot cake ever? This recipe has it all. It is sweet, moist, rich and so delicious. Lets get started!

Ingredients

140 gram of grated carrots
140 gram of grated apple
140 gram of rice flour
100 ml of apple sauce
120 ml of coconut oil
115 gram of brown sugar
1 tsp of baking powder
2 large eggs
½ tsp of cinnamon
1/8 tsp of nutmeg
¼ cup of pecan nuts
icing sugar for decoration

Instructions

Grate the carrots and apple
Whisk eggs, coconut oil. Add the carrot, apples and apple sauce
Combine rice flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Whisk.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until all the ingredients are mixed properly
Preheat the oven on 370℉/180℃
Put the mixture in a springform and decorate with finely chopped pecan nuts. Bake the cake for 45-50 minutes. Check at 35 minutes if the cake is dry in the middle with a skewer or large bamboo skewer
Cool and sprinkle some icing sugar on the cake