Carrot Bread (Carrot Cake Loaf)

Carrot Bread is the best carrot cake, in bread form. Carrot Cake Bread is easy to slice, serve and most importantly, enjoy! This Carrot Cake Loaf is covered in a delicious cream cheese glaze for the perfect cake to frosting ratio!

The other day, a friend of mine mentioned that she loves all of my bread recipes and suggested I make a Carrot Cake Bread. I personally don’t eat a lot of carrot cake {shocking, isn’t it?} but love eating cream cheese icing by the spoonful, so I enlisted Chris’ help on taste testing to perfect my Carrot Cake Loaf recipe.

Carrot Bread is like carrot cake in loaf form, which makes it perfectly acceptable to enjoy at breakfast. For some reason, it seems to be a spring favorite, but I think it should be enjoyed year round!

A carrot loaf is easier to slice and store. In fact, you can even freeze it because you know you’ll want to save some for later!

You can make one large loaf pan (1 lb) or if you prefer, 6 miniature loaf pans. Just reduce baking time. I love miniature loaf pans for easy gifting.

The Best Carrot Bread

I combined all your favorite carrot cake recipe flavors and integrated it into my famous sweet bread. After a few tests, it has been perfected, and I am so excited for you to try it! Even I can’t keep my hands off of it.

Carrot Bread has the most amazing cake to cream cheese frosting ratio. It can be enjoyed for breakfast, snack or dessert! It’s a sweet treat any time, for any occasion!

What’s in a Carrot Loaf?

It’s made with fresh grated carrots which makes the carrot bread so incredibly moist! It’s also made with classic sweet bread ingredients including sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, egg, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla with a hint of cinnamon.

The Cream Cheese Glaze is made with cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar (also known as confectioner’s sugar).

What’s really amazing about this carrot bread (other than the incredibly amazing taste) is that it just takes 10 minutes hands on time to make! This no yeast bread recipe rises perfect, every time!

In my opinion, the most important element in Carrot Cake Bread is the cream cheese frosting. It not only adds a lot of flavor, but it is incredibly beautiful as well! It solidifies, but doesn’t harden, offering beautiful slices (and perfect for Easter entertaining.)

I mean, look at that glaze!

Questions About this Carrot Loaf Recipe

I hope you enjoy the best carrot cake recipe, in bread form! If you try it, please take a moment to comment and rate it using my 5 star system. Here’s what readers are asking about this recipe!

• • She makes a great point- this carrot bread works beautifully spread across smaller pans, and it freezes well too!  To freeze Carrot Bread, cover in plastic wrap and place in a freezer bag. This will prevent any freezer odors from seeping in along with freezer burn.
  • I fresh grate my carrots using a cheese grater. This ensures maximizes moisture in the carrot cake loaf.

Tips to Make the Best Carrot Cake Loaf

• Don’t over-mix!
• You can add more or less grated carrot depending on your texture preferences. You can also grate it into smaller or larger pieces!
• While I kept this recipe simple, you can certainly add your own spin! Some people love the additions of walnuts or raisins to their carrot bread texture.

How to make Carrot Cake Bread:

You can allow it to cool completely on a wire rack which will set the icing or you can serve it warm. The choice is yours!

Easter Recipes You’ll Love

Serve this Carrot Cake Loaf 12 months out of the year, but if you’re looking for more easy Easter recipes, you’ll love these!

Cottontail Easter Cupcakes, Carrot Cake Cheese Ball, Carrot Shaped Southwest Cheese Ball and Bunny Butt Cake!

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Carrot Bread (Carrot Cake Loaf)

Carrot Bread is the best carrot cake, in bread form. Carrot Cake Bread is easy to slice, serve and most importantly, enjoy! This Carrot Cake Loaf is covered in a delicious cream cheese glaze for the perfect cake to frosting ratio!Carrot Cake Bread is a moist, delicious carrot cake with cream cheese icing in easy to slice and enjoy bread form!

Course Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword bread, easter, easy recipe, quick bread, sweet breads

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 55 minutes

Servings 14

Calories 216 kcal

Author Julie Blanner

Ingredients

Cake:

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cup flour
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup carrots grated

Topping:

• 4 oz cream cheese softened
• 1/4 cup butter softened
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease 1 lb loaf pan and set aside.

2. Combine sugar, flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.  Set aside.

3. In a mixing bowl/mixer, beat egg, milk and oil.

4. Gradually add dry mixture to wet until just moist. Add grated carrots.

5. Pour into loaf pan and bake 50 minutes or until golden brown and set.

6. Combine topping ingredients and warm 15 seconds in a microwave until smooth and pourable, if needed. Pour over bread and serve.

Recipe Notes

You can make 6 miniature loaves for gifting by using ceramic miniatue loaf pans and reducing baking time.

Nutrition Facts

Carrot Bread (Carrot Cake Loaf)

Amount Per Serving

Calories 216 Calories from Fat 54

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 6g 9%

Saturated Fat 4g 20%

Cholesterol 13mg 4%

Sodium 96mg 4%

Potassium 133mg 4%

Total Carbohydrates 37g 12%

Sugars 23g

Protein 2g 4%

Vitamin A 0.9%

Calcium 6.3%

Iron 5.4%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.