Mini Carrot cakes

Easy Mini Carrot cakes with silky cream cheese frosting are the Ultimate Carrot cake experience in a lovely Mini Bundt version! These adorable small carrot cakes have the perfect individual serving sizes and the most amazing soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture with silky cream cheese frosting and a super-easy yet decorative candied carrot finish.

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• Why this is the best recipe
• Ingredient notes
• 4 Expert baking tips
• Equipment notes
• Other Carrot cake recipes
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• EASY Mini Carrot cakes

Why this is the best recipe

• It is extremely easy – You won´t need any fancy ingredients to make this mini carrot cake recipe. It comes together really easily, a totally doable from scratch. Both the mixing process of the batter as well as the baking process is very simple, even for beginners
• It is super quick – I do not overcomplicate anything in this recipe! Making these mini carrot bundt cakes is not just easy, but quick as well, all you need to do is mix a few ingredients, bake, and enjoy. This small-batch carrot cake recipe is the perfect choice if you want something quick and impressive that is literally ready in an hour
• It is crazy delicious – I never compromise on taste! The moist carrot cake base with my signature low sugar cream cheese frosting is the most wonderful flavor pairing, that will blow your mind!
• No special equipment is needed – All you need is a mini Bundt tin that you probably already have at home and you are good to go! Having said that, you can easily make the recipe in a muffin tin or mini cake tin as well

Ingredient notes

For the Carrot mini cakes (mini bundt cakes)

• Oil: This is an oil-based cake (no butter) that keeps the mini cakes super moist, soft, and fluffy. Butter-based cakes tend to harden in the fridge, with oil we won’t have this issue. Use no flavor vegetable oil
• Sugar: I am using a combination of granulated white and brown sugar. I absolutely love the brown sugar deep molasses flavor do not leave it out. If you want to learn about the different types of sugar and how to use them in baking, please read my article in here
• Egg: Room temperature as always
• Flour: I am using pasty flour to make this Carrot Mini Bundt cake recipe but all purpose works too, they are so-called “soft flour” which are low on protein resulting in a delicate, tender texture. If you want to be a Pro when it comes to deciding what type of flour to use in your baking, please read my article in here
• Baking powder + Baking soda: Makes the cake tender and helps the rise
• Salt: We always need at least a pinch of salt in any cake batter to balance the flavors
• Spices: For these individual-sized carrot cakes I recommend a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves, or simply use pumpkin spice. I have a DYI pumpkin spice recipe in here. Feel free to use any spice you prefer.
• Carrot: Carrot will give further moistness to the cake, I recommend peeling carrots then shredding them fresh. It is a juicy, moist, wonderful addition to the cake
• Nut: Use either walnuts or pecans and it is a good idea to toast them first in the oven for a few minutes. Toasting nuts enhances their flavors. Tip.: worth chopping pecan or walnut into smaller pieces

Exact ingredient quantities can be found in the RECIPE CARD, at the bottom of this page.

Cream cheese Frosting

• Cream cheese: I always use full fat Philadelphia tub when I state cream cheese in my recipes. I find it easy to cream (need to bring it to room temperature first) and very pleasant in taste. I usually beat it with a hand mixer for less than a minute, just until it becomes fluffy and increases a bit in volume. Please avoid over whipping
• Icing sugar: Icing sugar or Powdered sugar can be used to make this the frosting, use only a very small amount, no need more. See my tips below

Exact ingredient quantities can be found in the RECIPE CARD, at the bottom of this page.

Candied Carrot

1. Candied Carrots: You can make candied carrots by simply slicing a carrot, boiling the slices in sugar syrup then drying them in the oven. Check my tips below

4 Expert baking tips

1. How to make moist Carrot Mini Bundt cakes

This Carrot bundt cake recipe is using simple ingredients that can be typically found in carrot cake: carrot, some sorts of nut (walnut this time), some spices, and oil instead of butter. It is an extremely moist and flavourful cake batter and can be made really easily and quickly.

1. Prepare your mini Bundt tin eg. Silikomart Fantasy mini Bundt mould what I am using
2. Pre-heat oven to 180 C / 356 F
3. Ingredients must be all measured with a Digital scale
4. The egg must be at room temperature
5. Shred carrot fresh
6. Whip Oil, egg, and the 2 different kinds of sugar with an Electric hand mixer for a minute or two until combined
7. Sift dry ingredients together (flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, spices) before adding to the mixture
8. Folded in dry ingredients by hand (using Rubber spatula). Do not use a mixer at this point
9. Then, fold in the shredded carrot and toasted and chopped nuts
10. Pour or pipe batter into your Silikomart Fantasy mini Bundt mould. Do not fully fill the mold as the Bundt cakes will rise
11. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean
12. Let the mini cakes completely cool in the Bundt mold as they can be fragile while they are hot, do not risk

TIP: The cake can be made also in a Mini loaf tin or even in Muffin tin. Make sure you adjust the cake batter quantity to the size of the tin you use

2. How to make healthier cream cheese frosting

This cream cheese frosting is made of 2 ingredients; cream cheese and a small amount of icing sugar

While making cream cheese frosting there are a couple of considerations worth bearing in mind:

1. sift icing sugar and 2. use full-fat cream cheese eg. Philadephia tub (I am using the one that is available in Europe) 3. do not over whip the mixture as with overtime, it will only become runnier

You will have to whip the mixture with an electric hand mixer for a minute or two until it reaches a creamy, fluffy consistency then stop. Please note that the frosting won´t get stiffer after this point, in fact, if you overbeat it, it will get only runnier then it will break.

It is important that you keep this cream cheese frosting cold and frost the mini cakes only after they are chilled.

3. How to make candied carrots decoration

Feel free to decorate the individual carrot cakes according to your liking, candied carrot slices is just one idea!

How to make candied carrot slices?

1. Make a simple syrup by boiling an equal amount of water and sugar
2. Slice carrot into thin, even slices and boil in syrup for 5-10 minutes, until syrup thickens
3. Pre-heat oven to 100C / 212 F
4. Place the pre-cooked carrot slices onto parchment paper or a silicone baking mat and dry them in the oven for 30 minutes
5. Let the carrot slices cool to room temp before using them
6. Make a swirl using your fingers and decorate the mini carrot cakes

Equipment notes

First and foremost make sure you measure the ingredients with the help of a Digital scale. Cup measurement in this recipe is an indicative figure only. Baking cups are not just inaccurate, but also make way too many dirty dishes, it is just not worth it.

If you are baking regularly and often struggle with your oven, also recommend purchasing an inexpensive Digital oven thermometer. Most home ovens over or under run and inaccurate oven temperature can cause several issues during baking and wasting time and ingredients.

For whipping the wet ingredients you won´t need a stand mixer however an Electric hand mixer is super handy. Then, once you proceed with the dry ingredients, make sure to don´t use your mixer but a Rubber spatula instead, as we do not want to over mix this cake batter.

For making the mini cakes, I am using a silicone mold called Silikomart Fantasy mini Bundt mould, it provides a perfectly even baking without worrying about the cakes sticking to the mold.

Other Carrot cake recipes

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