Carrot Cake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Southern Cakes

By Nancie McDermott

Published 2007

  • About

Carrot cake didn’t come from the South, but since it got here, it has been right at home. The seventies saw carrot cakes take center stage, particularly as an alternative wedding cake. As a people who consider Jell-0 to be a salad and macaroni and cheese to be a vegetable, we were quick to embrace the dubious notion that carrot cake was health food, since it had vegetables all through it and in its very name. Now we know better, but we love it still, especially with the cream cheese frostin