This carrot cake chia pudding recipe ... Finally, to garnish your pudding, you'll want some extra shredded carrots, chopped pecans, and optionally even more maple syrup for drizzling.

About one large grated carrot goes into the batter for each cake, Delgado said, along with chopped pecans, sweetened shredded coconut, and vanilla bean paste instead of vanilla extract.

Toast pecans. Toasting your pecans in the oven ... Best Type of Carrots for Carrot Cake Shredded carrots are the best type of carrots to use for carrot cake. Anything too chunky won't bake as ...

Carrot cake doesn’t usually ask for much ... I grind a handful of walnuts, pecans or pistachios into the dry ingredients, which adds richness and structure without overwhelming the cake.

Carol Marsh has decades of baking experience, and the America’s Test Kitchen carrot cake recipe is her favorite ... including adding shaved toasted coconut, pecans, or royal icing carrots.

We leave out the pecans because we're not big nut lovers, but everything else we follow exactly. Best carrot cake I've ever had!” —Ruth Carrot cake can often be heavy, but this one isn’t.

Carrot cake should be moist but not oily. Dense but not fudgy. Loaded with nuts. (I prefer walnuts over pecans, but you do your thing. Just make sure to toast them before adding them to the batter.) ...

There’s an organic carrot cake with vanilla bean cream cheese frosting and toasted organic pecans. Then for nut-haters (or those with an allergy), there’s a no-nut carrot cake that’s also organic, ...