Carrot Cake

This is the best version of carrot cake you’ve ever had with its incredibly moist crumb, loads of shredded carrots and raisins and toasted walnuts, and a perfectly sweet-but-not-too-sweet cream cheese frosting. One bite and you’ll know why it always gets voted “most popular”—based on the way it tastes alone.

Widely regarded as one of the very best bakeries in America, Boston’s iconic Flour Bakery + Cafe is the creation of legendary pastry chef Joanne Chang. Chang spent years honing her craft at some of the country’s top restaurants before opening Flour in Boston’s South End with her husband Christopher Myers in 2000. Her array of wildly delicious sticky buns, cinnamon rolls, cookies, muffins, cakes, pies, and more quickly attracted a loyal following, and the awards and accolades soon began to roll in. Chang was awarded the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker in 2016, and today there are nine Flour Bakery + Cafe locations across Boston and Cambridge.