Carrot Cake

This carrot cake is made from scratch with a spiced cake batter containing carrot, pumpkin, and pecans. It is iced and filled with cream cheese icing, garnished with pecans, and accented with buttercream carrot. This carrot cake does not have raisins in it, but it does have pecans baked into the cake batter!

Since its founding in 1959 as a small, 24-hour window-service bakery by Mildred and Lloyd Haydel, Haydel’s Bakery has since become a legendary New Orleans-area institution for its wide variety of scratchmade cakes, cookies, pastries, and more family-recipe NOLA-inspired treats – and its king cakes are a Mardi Gras tradition for countless locals. Haydel’s is today run by the third-generation of the Haydel family, and owner David Haydel is the only baker in Louisiana who’s internationally certified as a Craftsman and Master Baker. In 2010, Haydel’s even broke the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest King Cake!