How to decorate a carrot cake

Double layer carrot cake topped with sweet cream cheese!

Carrot cake decorations can look dated. But candied carrot peel rosettes are easy, help eliminate waste, and make a chic and elegant carrot cake decoration. Here's how to make fresh carrot peel rosettes to top your favorite carrot cake recipe, whether layer cake, carrot cupcakes, or squares. The recipe? Sugar, water, and carrot peels. (We also have the best carrot cake recipe to go with it!). . . . . #carrotcake #cakedecoration #carrotpeelrosettes #candiedcarrotpeel #carrotcakedecorations

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The most spectacular carrot cake with whipped cream cheese frosting and salted caramel sauce.

This carrot cake is perfectly spiced, moist and unbelievably good! Using candied carrot peels as decoration (optional), cream cheese frosting and sweetened shredded coconut, this cake is simply the best — I make it all the time!

This 6 inch carrot cake recipe is so easy to make and bakes up so tender and moist! One batch makes the perfect 6-inch layer cake.

Paul Hollywood’s carrot cake recipe uses pecan nuts for crunch and flavour, with a lovely warmth coming through in the cinnamon and ginger spices. It’s topped with cream cheese frosting, and decorated with a crown of orange zest. If you have carrot cake marked down as an ‘everyday’ kind of cake, then take a look at this other stunning recipe: a layered carrot cake. Four layers are sandwiched between a chocolate and vanilla marbled cheesecake filling, plus thick layers of cream cheese icing.

Made with grated carrots, Granny Smith apples, and sweetened coconut, these carrot cake layers are moist, sweet, and soft.

Adapted from Cooks Illustrated for Food.com