Greek Yogurt Carrot Cake Sheet Cake.
This carrot cake sheet cake is tender and moist, filled with wonderful spiced carrot flavor and topped with toasted pecan cream cheese frosting. It’s easy, delicious and feeds a crowd!
It’s carrot cake season around here!
This carrot cake sheet cake is super easy to make, loaded with carrot flavor, lots of spice and topped with the fluffiest toasted pecan cream cheese frosting. It’s the best carrot cake to make for a big gathering or potluck, because you can make it ahead of time and it will feed a bunch of people!
Would you believe it if I said I’m not a huge carrot cake fan?! I think it stems from the fact that growing up, most of the carrot cakes I was served included raisins and/or some version of nuts.
We all know that when raisins masquerade as chocolate chips… It’s just offensive. And I couldn’t get behind nuts in any dessert as a kid.
Also, the fact that I really hated vegetables back then? Made carrot cake my worst nightmare.
Then, I started coming around! To be honest, I think it was the cream cheese frosting. I’m freakishly obsessed with cream cheese frosting, as you know.
I also make a really delicious pistachio carrot cake, and that got me on board with carrot cake + nuts. Pistachios are so buttery and salty and I LOVE what they add to carrot cake. P.S. I also address my cream cheese frosting obsession in that post so… we’ve come a long way.
Or not.
This recipe is based on my pumpkin sheet cake and my banana sheet cake. Both are crazy popular here on the site and they are easy to make, taste fantastic and feed a crowd.
Add this one to the list!
My favorite thing might just be the greek yogurt in the carrot cake. I add plain greek yogurt to my sheet cakes all the time. It might be one of my most used ingredients. It adds so much moisture to a cake – in a really good way – and I swear it is almost foolproof!
The cream cheese frosting is topped with toasted pecans, which I toast while I whip up the cake. The nutty flavor and crunchy texture add so much!
I keep this cake in the fridge because of the frosting. But we LOVE cold cake, and this will stay fresh in the fridge for a few days.
It always makes me so excited to find a good dessert that I can prepare a day ahead of time.
Just look at that fluffy cloud of frosting on top!
I’ll eat veggies everyday if they look like this!
Carrot Cake Sheet Cake
Greek Yogurt Carrot Cake Sheet Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- ⅔ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup plain greek yogurt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 ⅔ cups finely grated carrots
toasted pecan cream cheese frosting
- 1 cup pecan halves
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 2 to 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9x13 inch baking pan with nonstick baking spray.
- Toast the nuts for the frosting first. Spread the pecans out on a baking sheet. Place in the oven for 8 to 20 minutes, until golden and toasty and fragrant. Remove and let them cool, then chop.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and baking powder.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar and the eggs until smooth. Whisk in the oil and greek yogurt. Whisk in the vanilla extract.
- Stir in the dry ingredients until just combined. Fold the carrots in with a spatula until they are evenly dispersed.
- Spread the batter in the greased baking pan.
- Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool completely before frosting.
toasted pecan cream cheese frosting
- Beat the cream cheese and butter together until creamy. Beat in 2 cups of the sugar until combined, adding more if necessary. Beat in the vanilla extract. Frost the cooled cake! I like to keep the cake in the fridge because of the cream cheese frosting, plus we love cold cake.
- Top with the toasted pecans and serve.
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Oh and if vegetables in cake isn’t your thing, you can always make a chocolate easter sheet cake!
One Comment on “Greek Yogurt Carrot Cake Sheet Cake.”
Try using sultanas (golden raisins) instead of regular raisins. They are sweet, tender, and moist!