Best Carrot Garden Recipes
CARROT CAKE FOR LOLLIPOP GARDEN CAKE
A perfect way to herald the coming of spring or celebrate meaningful moments, this carrot cake is moist and full of crunchy nuts, sweet carrots, and chewy golden raisins. Use this recipe to make the Lollipop Garden Cake.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
Yield Makes 2 eight-inch layers
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 2 eight-by-two-inch round cake pans. Line bottoms with parchment; butter, and dust with flour. Grate carrots in food processor; measure 2 cups, and transfer to medium bowl. Add raisins, walnuts, applesauce, and lemon juice and zest to carrots.
- Wipe food processor bowl; fit with blade. Add flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and allspice; pulse to mix. With motor running, pour in oil and eggs; process until smooth, scraping sides. Add carrot mixture; pulse. Pour into pans; bake about 40 minutes, until tester inserted in middle comes out clean.
- Cool in pans on rack for 20 minutes. Remove; cool completely, right side up.
MOLLY'S HIGH COUNTRY GARDEN CARROT CAKE
This recipe is so named because my daughter helped me make it, and we used carrots pulled from our garden right before baking. This is also a cake for high altitude (I'm at a little over 5000 feet, so beware if you are 7000+). What I did was take highly rated carrot cake recipe and adjust it for altitude and personal taste (added nutmeg, for example). It did fall a bit in the middle, but I think that's because I couldn't resist opening the oven door at one point (bad!). Nonetheless, everyone said it was the best carrot cake they'd eaten, and it was super moist. I've since edited the amount of vegetable oil down a bit because that might have been what made it a touch heavy. If you want to prepare it the way I did originally, use 1 1/2 cups of oil. Also, I use half grapeseed and half canola oil. I'm convinced the grapeseed oil contributes to an exceptionally moist cake. For the cream cheese frosting, I used recipe #6536 by riffraff, but I've included it here to save time. Frosting was absolutely delicious and I made no changes except to use orange food color (as you can see from the photos).
Provided by 2hot2handle
Categories Dessert
Time 1h
Yield 18 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
- In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add flour mixture to egg mixture. Stir in grated carrots and pecans or raisins if using. Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and let cool. Turn the cake over onto a platter and let cool completely before frosting.
- For frosting, beat cream cheese and butter together with a mixer. Add vanilla and powdered sugar, and beat until combined. If necessary, add a tablespoon or two of milk or cream until the frosting is the consistency you like for spreading.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 495.5, Fat 27.6, SaturatedFat 6.5, Cholesterol 64.5, Sodium 310.7, Carbohydrate 59.2, Fiber 1.6, Sugar 45, Protein 4.8
CARROT GARDEN ICE CREAM DESSERT
When I was a kid, my mom made an ice cream dessert topped with gummy worms. I've riffed on it with carrots made out of frosting. -Karen Enns, Kamloops, British Columbia
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 15m
Yield 12 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Finely crush half of the cookies; coarsely crush the remaining cookies., In a large bowl, beat ice cream, whipped topping and finely crushed cookies until blended. Spread into an 8-in. square dish; sprinkle with crushed cookies. Freeze until firm., Tint frosting orange; pipe carrot tops in rows over dessert. Cut green apple licorice into 1-in. pieces; separate strands, leaving one end intact. Place on carrots to form stems.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 414 calories, Fat 20g fat (10g saturated fat), Cholesterol 29mg cholesterol, Sodium 228mg sodium, Carbohydrate 56g carbohydrate (39g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 3g protein.
CLAY POT CARROT GARDEN
Another great food craft for the kiddos or even a garden party with friends. Light and small in size. Mom's take it for snack for your prek student's class..
Provided by Kimi Gaines @kimijo
Categories Chocolate
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Rinse clay pots and allow to dry. In the meantime make pudding as directed on package. When pudding has set, fold in cool whip (like mousse-u can also by mousse in the box and make it that way). Keep cold in fridge.
- Preparation: cut out circles from parchment paper to fit on the bottom of pot melt dyed chocolate and dip marshmallow & then into the colored sugar...allow to set in refrigerator. with a peeler make long thin cuts for the carrot top, crush oreo's; set aside
- Assembly: Pipe in pudding mixture in the clay pot, place marshmallow on top, crushed oreos around marshmallow. With a toothpick make a small hole to add the celery strings.
CARROT GARDEN
Steps:
- Spread carrots with cream cheese spread.
- Sprinkle with parsley and pepper.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 50, Fat 3.5 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 10 mg, Sodium 110 mg, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 1 g
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