Sallie Anne Robinson’s Daufuskie Island Carrot Cake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Southern Cakes

By Nancie McDermott

Published 2007

  • About

This moist cake is a celebration of fruits and vegetables, and sugar and spice. The pineapple and raisins, shredded carrots, nuts, and a small shower of spices give it flavor galore, just the way Sallie Anne Robinson likes it. Born and raised on Daufuskie Island, off the South Carolina coast, Ms. Robinson is the author of Gullah Home Cooking the Daufusk