Reviewed: May 23, 2012

I made this cake for my mom's birthday, since she's a huge fan of carrot cake. It was a small family party, so I halved the recipe and made a little one layer 8 inch cake. Everyone LOVED it! I'm not a big fan of carrot cake, and my dad isn't a big walnut fan, but we both adored it. It was so moist, and had a fantastic flavor to it. I did make a few tweaks, I used half oil and half applesauce, I used extra virgin olive oil, I added extra cinnamon, extra nuts, and a half a cup more carrot. It was absolutely superb when topped with cream cheese frosting. This will definitely be my go to carrot cake recipe!

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cakelover28

Reviewed: May 12, 2012

I lost my carrot cake recipe, and this is the first one that I really like, I did however and extra spices to this recipe, ginger, allspice, cloves and pumpkin pie spice, also extra cinnamon, I don't really measure them, just add a bit until I get the taste I desire, everyone has me make this cake for all of the hollidays

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bratt

Living In: Chino Valley, Arizona, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2012

I have had 3 different people tell me that these were the best cupcakes ( I prefer to do cupcakes..) that they have ever eaten! Can't wait to make them again!

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pattykakes

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Eureka, California, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 2, 2012

A fabulous carrot cake recipe: great flavor and texture. I loved that it was not too sweet. I made cupcakes reducing the baking time by about five minutes. I frosted them with Cream Cheese Frosting II which was also a great recipe. Yummy.

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Deb C

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Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Peabody, Massachusetts, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 12, 2012

Love this recipe it was easy. I did add raisins and threw in a handful of Hersheys cinnamon chips

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LISANLAUREN

Reviewed: Dec. 12, 2011

This cake was awesome! It used lots of the extra carrots I had around. The only thing I did differently was replace 1cup of the oil with applesauce.

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ebarb

Reviewed: Nov. 12, 2011

Delicious carrot cake! It is super-duper moist!! What is great is that since carrots already have a lot of moisture, you can substitute applesauce for the oil to make it healthier. I also sprinkled in ground cloves, ground nutmeg, and allspice to give it more spice :)

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pkyumi

Cooking Level: Beginning

Reviewed: Nov. 10, 2011

I made this today for my mother's birthday. I followed some other reviewer's suggestion by using 1 cup applesauce and 1/3 cup oil, 1 cup sugar, and added a pinch of nutmeg. The flavor was fabulous but the cake was a little on the heavy side. I will definitely make it again but will play with the oil to applesauce ratio.

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yaralisa

Reviewed: Jul. 28, 2011

Tried this cake for the first time for 4th of July festivities. Everyone loved this recipe! I was asked to bring it again for an upcoming party. I didn't change a thing and it was yummy!

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