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Mini Carrot Cakes Recipe

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You don’t have to feel guilty about eating an entire cake by yourself when it’s a mini cake! Carrot cake is one of my favorite desserts. I saw these Mini Carrot Cakes on Pinterest and knew I wanted to make them for the Pinterest Remakes hop. I used my own homemade carrot cake recipe and made up the directions.

mini carrot cakes recipe

This is the best carrot cake recipe I have for people who do not like pineapple in their carrot cake. Personally, I love pineapple and coconut in mine. But…my husband does not like pineapple or raisins, so this cake is a compromise. I did put a few raisins in this one for him to eat around. You can leave the raisins out completely or add more raisins if you like. The carrot cake frosting is a basic homemade cream cheese frosting recipe I use on other kinds of cakes, too. You can also use store-bought cream cheese frosting.

Carrot Cake Recipe

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup walnuts, ground
  • 1/2 cup raisins *add 1 cup if desired
  • 3 cups carrots, peeled and grated
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1 cup oil
  • 4 eggs
  1. Lightly grease and flour (or spray with nonstick cooking spray and line the bottom with parchment paper) a large non-stick cookie sheet (*make sure it has a rim around it). Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Measure dry ingredients into your mixer bowl and mix well.
  3. Combine sugar and oil and mix well. Add eggs and beat until creamy.
  4. Add dry ingredients and beat until well blended.
  5. Add ground walnuts. You can also cut up raisins if you like or put them in whole.
  6. Add carrots and mix well.
  7. Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes OR until cake is completely done. Check often so it does not overbake.
  8. Allow cake to cool completely. Once cake is cool, use a round cookie cutter to cut out mini carrot cakes.
  9. Frost the top of one mini cake with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting and top it with another mini cake. Add a thick layer of frosting. Repeat this step until all mini cakes have been frosted. Decorate with frosting carrots (see directions below.)

Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

  • 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
  • 1/4 cup butter, at room temperature
  • 2.5 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  1. Beat cream cheese until softened.
  2. Add butter, mix well.
  3. Add 1.5 cups powdered sugar and beat until blended.
  4. Add remaining powdered sugar and vanilla and beat until smooth and fluffy. Do not over-mix or frosting will be runny.

*NOTE: Set aside at least a half cup of the cream cheese frosting if you want to add the carrots on top.

carrot cake icing

How to add the decorative carrots on top:

Add a few drops of food coloring to about 3 tablespoons of the white cream cheese frosting. You’ll need to make a GREEN batch and an ORANGE batch. Use a small circular cake decorating tip to draw the orange part of the carrot. Use the same tip with green frosting to add the top of the carrot.

Here are more Pinterest remakes from a few of my favorite bloggers:

mini carrot cakes

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Comments

  1. carol says

    Thanks for posting and making these cakes. They are truly as delicious as they look too.

  2. Maryann D. says

    This is really cute and fun and I do love carrot cake. What a wonderful treat to bring to a party!

    • Nicole says

      Thanks, Maryann! This carrot cake got the official seal of approval from my mom recently. She loves carrot cake, so I told her to be totally honest. And she is a fan! So now I feel extra confident sharing the recipe. You’ll have to let me know if you try it. –Nicole

  5. Maria C says

    This looks so good & easy to make. Can’t wait to make my own & serve with the family. Thanks for sharing

  7. Rosi says

    oh oh what little heart stealers!!! These are so doggone cute it might be hard to bite into it!!! blue-ribbon fair worthy. I love pineapple and coconut, too, and raisins!! but I’d love these just as they are!!!

  11. Julie Wood says

    I love Carrot Cake and usually make it for Birthdays and this recipe is a very good one to try. I also like pineapple and raisins in my carrot cake and I like how cute the Carrot looks on top.

  12. Pam says

    I am a huge carrot cake fan. Thanks for the tip about the frosting. I always forget to set aside the frosting to make garnishes and have to make more!

  15. Tammy says

    I love mini sized desserts because it gives me so much more portion control! These look delicious and I really like the way you decorated them.

  16. Nicole Dziedzic says

    Huge carrot cake fan here! These are so cute and I love the small serving size! My favorite thing abour carrot cake is the yummy frosting.

  17. Scarlet says

    I absolutely love carrot cake and this is such a fun idea to make mini cakes. It would be great all year but extra fun for Easter!

  18. Dawn Lopez says

    Oh these just look like bite sized bits of heaven. I love carrot cake to pieces and this one looks like a keeper. Plus.. jeez they are SO cute!

    • Nicole says

      Thanks, Ellen! Piping the carrots on top was my favorite part. I was just getting the hang of it when I ran out of mini cakes. LOL

  22. shelly peterson says

    These are the cutest little cakes. I love carrot cake! I don’t mind the pineapple but my family prefers no raisins. I will have to try this out.

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