Chocolate Carrot Cake Recipes

Everything you love about classic carrot cake, right down to the cream cheese frosting, but madeover with a heap of CHOCOLATE! This Chocolate Carrot Cake is an epic twist on a classic, and you’ll love the unique flavor of this ultra-moist cake! Everything is better with chocolate, right? And this Chocolate Carrot Cake is no exception. 🙂

No need to mess with a good carrot cake recipe. Totally agree, unless it’s to add chocolate. You must try Chocolate Carrot Cake. The

I added chocolate to carrot cake in every component.Cocoa in the cake, mini chocolate chips, and cocoa in the cream cheese frosting. Super simple idea, and equally easy execution (just add chocolate!), butit makes for an extremely unique carrot cake!

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It’s not outrightly super carrot-y (but then again, neither is classic carrot cake), and you wouldn’t necessarily identify this as carrot cake unless I told you, but once you know, then you’ll see how it’s a Chocolate Carrot Cake.

The carrots mostly enhancethe texture, and make this cake incredibly moist, but they also add a touch of sweetness, and a subtle hint of classic carrot cake goodness.It’s dense and moist, but still soft.

Carrot cake’s essence is a lot to do with spices, and we still give this Chocolate Carrot Cake all the right amount of spice!

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The chocolate cream cheese frosting is dynamite because ANY cream cheese frosting is AMAZING. Aside from Brown Butter Frosting (oh, shoot, Nutella Buttercream is phenomenal too.. and Peanut Butter Frosting! Eek.), there is NOTHING better than a good cream cheese frosting.

Cream cheese frosting might be my all-time fave frosting. If done right, it cannot be beat. I love it to be really loaded with cream cheese and very creamy! Don’t you??

I did not want to overcomplicate this Chocolate Carrot Cake recipe by adding nuts, but they’re a usual suspect in regular carrot cake, and if you’d like, I think walnuts or pecans would both be great, but I personally stuck with just chocolate chips to givethis Chocolate Carrot Cake some extra chocolate punch.

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If you’re looking for a recipe for Easter or a springtime occasion that’s equal parts whimsical and classic, then thisis the one to try.

Other favorite Easter/springtime recipes to check out are theseEaster Chicks Lemon Cookies —they’re the easiest cake mix lemon cookies, decorated with just a few ingredients to look like adorable chicks. So fun with kids!

This Bird’s Nest Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is just the perfect dessert. A soft, chewy, thick chocolate chip cookie cake, with classic buttercream frosting, and decorated to look like a bird’s nest. Super simple, but so delicious, and so festive.

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And I have to mention these Amish Sugar Cookies… they’re THE BEST sugar cookies, and great for ANY occasion. The Lemon and Orange ones are awesome for springtime).

Everything you love about classic carrot cake, right down to the cream cheese frosting, but madeover with a heap of CHOCOLATE! This Chocolate Carrot Cake is an epic twist on a classic, and you'll love the unique flavor and texture of this ultra-moist cake!This chocolate carrot cake is perfectly moist and spiced, it’s topped with a white chocolate cream cheese frosting making it the perfect snacking cake for Easter or any time of the year. The cake mix is quick to whip together and it’s even better made ahead of when you need it!

This time of year the sun starts shining more and everything comes back to life for the beginning of spring. We love it! This chocolate carrot cake is super easy to whip together and is packed full of flavour. It’s just the sweet snack we need around Mother’s Day and Easter! Talking about Easter our Chocolate Hot Cross Buns are to die for.

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There's something comforting about the balance of flavours in this cake, it's reminiscent of a carrot cake but amped up with cocoa powder and chocolate chunks throughout the mix. We do not apologise for the double dose of chocolate with the cream cheese frosting, the perfect medium for white chocolate. If you love cream cheese frosting you'll love our Tiramisu Cake!

If you’re like us and love cream cheese frosting, you need this chocolate carrot cake in your life and you need to check out our maple pecan banana bread, which is also life changing! Or if you are after something a little simpler try these Chocolate Cornflake Cakes.

Easy - once all your ingredients are out and ready to use, this recipe is simple to follow and the cake mix is really quick to produce - in under 15 minutes you can be placing it in the oven. Nothing complicated or faffy.

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One bowl - carrying on from being easy, this is a one bowl carrot cake kind of gig, we want things simple. It’s easy enough to make, but even easier on the clean up. To make this in one bowl just add the dry ingredients on top of the wet mix and gently fold in.

Moist - we want moist carrot cake, and this chocolate version provides that. Using oil helps with this but the star ingredient of carrots is what creates this wonderful texture.

Frosting - as with most cakes, we want the right balance of flavour in the frosting. The cream cheese frosting for this chocolate carrot cake is spot on; light, fluffy and whipped up in a moment, then flavoured with white chocolate which balances out the spices and dark chocolate in the cake.

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Oil - instead of butter we’re using vegetable oil, it really helps keep the moisture in the carrot cake and also means that you can avoid messing around with needing soft butter, especially if you live somewhere cold.

Sweetness - because we have a good amount of chocolate in this cake we want to ensure it is nicely balanced, you’ll need soft brown sugar for this.

Carrots - the centre focal point of this chocolate carrot cake is grated carrots. They add a lovely moisture to the texture of the cake.

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Spices - you need the following spices: ground cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, ground cloves and the perfect subtle touch of orange zest to lift them all together.

Nuts - we love to use pecans in our chocolate carrot cake, but you can easily use walnuts which are more traditional, if you have an allergy you don’t have to use nuts at all.

Cream cheese frosting - the cream cheese frosting is super special as it’s made with white chocolate. You’ll need: cream cheese, butter,

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The origin of carrot cake is disputed but it seems it stems mainly from the European region. It is a very popular cake in Britain especially in spring and around Easter and a lot of recipes have many variations of spices. Most traditional recipes settle on including cinnamon, ginger and mixed spices. In our easy chocolate carrot cake the spicing is similar; cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves and is perfectly balanced and ultimately heightened with a light touch of orange zest.

Zucchini - switch up the carrot cake with grated zucchini instead of carrot or do a 50/50 mix, just be sure to squeeze out the extra moisture if using zucchini. We haven’t had a chance to test this out, but if you do try it, let us know how it goes in the comments.

Layered - the cake domes into the centre of the cake, if you wish to make this a layered carrot cake then use a slicing knife or serrated bread knife to cut the cake in half around its equator, slather half the frosting in the centre and place the top of the cake back on and use the remaining frosting to top the cake.

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Round - if you don't have an 8 x 8 inch square tin, or you'd prefer to make a round cake, you can use a 9 inch round cake tin instead.

Gluten free - you can easily make this cake gluten free by switching out the all purpose flour for a gluten free all purpose flour.

Dairy free - to make this cake dairy free you will need to use dairy free dark chocolate for the cake batter and use dairy free cream cheese, butter and white chocolate for the frosting.

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Spices - feel free to mix it up with the spices. We feel like we nailed it with the balance of spices in this chocolate carrot cake, especially with the touch of orange zest. However, if you want to switch out the cloves with mixed spice or leave it out, that's up to you.

Don’t overmix - as with most cakes, we don’t want a heavy dense cake. Avoid this by whisking together the wet ingredients first then switching to a wooden spoon to fold through the dry ingredients.

Rest in tin - allowing the cake to rest in the tin before removing allows the cake to finish baking, it also helps with the texture and structure of the cake so it’s not going to break when you remove it from the tin.

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Cool completely before frosting - unless you want to have your frosting melt on your chocolate carrot cake, make sure