This involved mixing up a simple, thin icing of brown sugar ... in your grandmother's day — but some form of basic iced cakes date back much further, to at least the 1800s.

For years, Genevieve Ko would make this dessert for her kids. Now that they’re grown, she’s streamlined it for them — and you.

Carrot and orange is a natural pairing, so I’m not sure why orange isn’t always a part of the frosting. It should be. One of the great, mysterious miracles in baking is that carrot cake gets ...

What’s not negotiable here is the frosting. Cream cheese frosting is what makes carrot cake so glorious, in our opinion, and so it doesn’t veer. To make a batch, beat softened cream cheese and ...

There was never any question about what kind of cakes to make: carrot cake with orange cream cheese frosting. Carrot cake is an oil-based, one-bowl quick bread of a cake moistened with grated ...