7 carrot cake recipes that will become family classics

Our favourite carrot cake recipes

We're calling it – a slice of carrot cake counts towards your daily vegetable intake.

Shirni Parwana's masala carrot cake

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If you want to hit that daily vegetable intake, surely carrot cake counts? We like the mini-me cupcake versions with a classic cream-cheese icing, or the gravity-defying triple-layer carrot cake by dessert queen Christina Tosi. If it’s spice that you seek, make the buttermilk carrot cake with spiced caramel, or the masala carrot cake by Adelaide’s Shirni Parwana. However you slice it, one thing is for sure: carrot cakes never go out of style.

A two-layer carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, topped with walnuts, on a wooden cake stand. A thick triangle slice of carrot cake is in the foreground, on the left. — Photo: Benito Martin

Sixpenny’s carrot cake with candied walnuts

Sixpenny’s carrot cake with candied walnuts

Buttermilk carrot cake with spiced caramel

Buttermilk carrot cake with spiced caramel

Carrot cupcakes with cream-cheese icing

Carrot cupcakes with cream-cheese icing

Ginger-carrot cake with salted butterscotch frosting

Ginger-carrot cake with salted butterscotch frosting

Christina Tosi’s carrot layer cake

Christina Tosi’s carrot layer cake

Fruity carrot cakes with orange icing

Fruity carrot cakes with orange icing

A square carrot cake, topped with cream-cheese icing and pistachios, on a eggshell-blue plate. — Photo: William Meppem

Shirni Parwana’s masala carrot cake

Shirni Parwana’s masala carrot cake

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