Debbie Cohen Kosofsky’s Forget-the-Frosting Carrot Cake

While in high school, our senior producer Debbie developed a carrot cake recipe so good, she convinced her parents to turn their kitchen into a professional-grade bakery so she could sell it. She got one order—from her dad: two hundred carrot cakes to be given out as a corporate holiday gift. Her mother helped her peel carrots until their hands turned orange. That experience sealed Debbie’s e