You only need four ingredients and five minutes to whip up a rich, homemade cream cheese frosting. It’s smooth, tangy, and ...

Cream cheese frosting became popular in the 1960s when it was printed alongside recipes for carrot cake. It is a traditional frosting for both carrot cake and red velvet cake. Lemon cream cheese ...

If you're a die-hard carrot cake fan, then good news: these creative recipes transform the classic dessert in the best ways.

I think I made the first version of this carrot cake back when I was pastry sous chef at Gilt, the now long-ago shuttered restaurant inside New York’s Palace Hotel. My pastry boss at the time, David ...

This carrot cake contains all the usual ingredients that make carrot cake distinct — carrots, cinnamon, walnuts — but with a bit (or more than a bit) more of everything! The cream cheese frosting is ...

I don’t think I’m alone in declaring January to be low on the totem pole of “favorite months.” By now, the post-holiday blues have set in, the weather is cold and gray (and snow doesn’t seem quite as ...

This easy carrot cake is a simple 2-layer cake with cream cheese frosting. No pineapple or coconut, just classic flavor and a ...

Let’s face it, cupcakes are fun. Familiar, colorful and oh-so-cute, these whimsical little cakes are famous for full-on flavor and mile-high frosting. And don’t forget the decorations. Best of all?

Dense, moist and homey, carrot cake is the quintessential American classic. It evolved from a time when sugar was expensive, so root vegetables like carrots, parsnips and beets sweetened the batter.

This frosting is delicious, and it spreads beautifully thanks to the cream cheese, which lends an ultra-smooth finish to your cake. As a bonus, the tartness of the cream cheese cuts straight through ...

Carrot cake is personal. Some people want it to be loaded with everything but the kitchen sink: for example, a combination of coconut, raisins, nuts, pineapple or all four. Others might push a slice ...