I love carrot cake… SO much, however.. I don’t like raisins… My mom fed us too many as kids and now I just can’t eat them {ha!} The perfect carrot cake for me is one without raisins… so I’m introducing my amazingly awesome raisin-less carrot cake recipe. It’s out of this world! Cover liberally with cream cheese frosting and cut yourself a big slice… I’m literally drooling a bit just thinking about how good it was… and it’s all gone!

Yep, chalk-full of carrots, pineapple and coconut, this carrot cake is amazing and totally raisin FREE!

I’ve made this several times in a 9×12 pan, but the last time I decided to make a layer cake. I’m not very good at the whole layer cake thing, so I just made two. This recipe makes two 9″ round cakes.

I put frosting between the layers…

Then did my best to  frost the rest of the cake… again, I’m not really good at this kind of baking

I added extra coconut for topping and decoration.

It’s a perfect winter snow cake… 

Here’s the recipe!

Yield: 1

Raisin-Less Carrot Cake Recipe Cream Cheese Frosting

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Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup wheat germ
• 1 3/4 cup white sugar {can reduce to 1 1/3 cup if you want, it's still good!}
• 1 cup applesauce
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups shredded carrots
• 1 cup crushed pineapple
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup coconut {more for topping if you want}
• recipe credit allrecipes.com
• 1 {8 oz} package cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Grease and flour a 9x13 pan or 2 rounds. Preheat oven to 175C or 350F
2. sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, then stir in the wheat germ. Add sugar, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla. Mix in the carrots, nuts, coconut and pineapple.
3. bake 45 min or until toothpick comes out clean. {the 2-9" rounds did not take this long... maybe closer to 35 min.}
4. {this recipe makes enough for the cake as described in this post, I even had leftovers}
5. In a medium bowl cream butter and cream cheese until creamy. Mix in vanilla, then gradually add the sugar. Mix with an electric blender until smooth and creamy. Store extra in refrigerator.

There you go! Two recipes to help you create an amazing dessert.