Easy Carrot Sheet Cake

This easy carrot sheet cake is perfect for your Easter celebration. Not only easy but also super quick to throw together too. Frost with a perfect cream cheese frosting to make the best carrot sheet cake!

Putting vegetables in cakes make them healthier. Just one of the lies I tell myself. Like I’ll get to the gym every day this week. I mean just little white lies slathered in cream cheese frosting.

Honestly, cover anything in cream cheese frosting and I’ll do handstands to get to it. Cover a carrot cake in it, and I believe the heavens have opened up. Yea, I’m a bit of a fan of carrot cake. So when Easter starts to roll around, I get super excited. Because that means carrot cake is on the menu. Like my carrot cake cupcakes or my carrot layer cake. 

But let’s be honest when it comes to any holiday. It’s hectic right? And when it comes to making your Easter dessert from scratch I believe it should take away your stress. Not add to it. So that’s why I decided to create an easy carrot sheet cake recipe that will be in the oven for you in less than 30 minutes.

What Does Carrot Cake Taste Like?

This carrot cake is moist and flavorful. It contains carrots of course but doesn’t taste “carrot-y”

It has some warm spices added to it- cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg added to it as well!

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Why This Recipe Works

• Easier than a layer cake!
• Carrot cake batter is easy to mix up and made in one bowl!
• This delicious cake has a moist crumb
• Simple to decorate
• Dreamy cream cheese frosting!

Ingredients Needed

For the cake

• Granulated white sugar
• Vegetable oil –  You can use any neutral oil here like canola oil or even avocado oil! 
• Applesauce – I lightened things up a bit with using some applesauce. I recommend unsweetened applesauce.
• Eggs – Use room temperature eggs. 
• All purpose flour- For best results, be sure to spoon and level the flour into your cup. For best results, use a kitchen scale and weigh the flour.
• Salt
• Baking soda
• Baking powder
• Ground Cinnamon
• Ground nutmeg
• Ground ginger
• Grated carrots – I always recommend grating the carrots by hand. Do not use pre-shredded carrots as I find them to be too large.
• Walnuts – I recommend toasting the walnuts first to bring out their flavor. Of course, you can always omit the walnuts or use toasted pecans instead!

For the frosting

• Unsalted butter
• Cream Cheese – I recommend using full-fat cream cheese, in the brick or blocks (not the tub variety) for best texture. Learn how to soften your cream cheese quickly here.
• Powdered Sugar – Also known as confectioners sugar or icing sugar. If you don’t have any, make your own powdered sugar!
• Vanilla extract

How To Make This Homemade Carrot Sheet Cake

You’ll start by mixing together the wet ingredients. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, oil, and applesauce until smooth and combined. 

Then you want to add in your room temperature eggs. Room temperature eggs will blend up easier and result in a taller, fluffier cake. 

Now it’s time for your dry ingredients. I just made this whole cake in one bowl. No need for separate bowls. Because separate bowls = more dishes. Um, no thank you.

Be sure to measure your flour correctly. And add to that baking powder, baking soda, and salt. And of course your spices- cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Again, just stir it all together with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon.

Now time for your carrots. I used 3 cups of carrots. I really want this to be a carrot cake, not a spice cake.

You can add walnuts to this if you want. Or just add them on top after for a pretty natural way to decorate. Either way, I believe they should find their way into your cake. Just sayin’.

Just simply fold in the carrots (and walnuts if using!)

Ok seriously that’s it. Time to bake the cake! I baked this in my 9×13 pan and just gave it a quick spray with non-stick spray. Again, easy peasy is the name of the game here.

Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting

While it’s baking, you can get to working on your cream cheese frosting. Because carrot cake is seriously nothing without a big old slathering of cream cheese frosting if you ask me.

I simply combine softened butter and cream cheese in my stand mixer with a paddle attachment, or you can use an electric hand mixer. 

To that add in your powdered sugar and a little bit of vanilla extract. That’s it! 

So once your cake has cooled, go ahead and frost the top of the cake with that amazing cream cheese frosting you just made. Then be sure to lick the spatula. Um, I mean get to your dishes. Oh who am I kidding. Go ahead and lick that spatula. You deserve it. You just made a carrot cake from scratch.

Cut a slice. Eat. Repeat. I know I did. I think I actually better get to the gym every day this week after this cake.

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