Carrot Cake Roll with Cream Cheese Filling

Carrot cake is one of the most beloved types of cake, so imagine carrot cake rolled up and filled with a rich and decadent cream cheese filling! The spices and blends of flavors and textures in this beautiful cake are perfection!

Carrot cake is often served as a classic Easter dessert, however, it is also great to serve on Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays, a baby shower, and potlucks; the possibilities are endless!

This is very similar to a traditional carrot cake, and fellow pumpkin roll lovers will love this cake!

Once you give this delicious carrot cake roll recipe a try, it will most assuredly become a recipe that the family requests over and over again!

If you would like some other ideas for desserts, you can try my tangy lemon bars and simple cheesecake recipe.

What is Carrot Cake Roll with Cream Cheese Frosting?

This fantastic carrot cake roll is similar to a traditional pumpkin roll.

The cake is baked on a jelly roll pan so that it is thin enough to roll.

After a few steps into the process, cream cheese frosting is spread evenly on the top of the cake and the cake is rolled up!

The cake is deliciously moist due to the grated carrots, which also add a sweet flavor to the dessert.

The warm spices of the cake perfectly complement the cream cheese mixture.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Your family or guests will think you bought a special cake for them from a bakery, because it’s so fancy looking!
• It satisfies the wow factor because it looks delectable and fancy, tastes incredible, yet doesn’t require you to spend all day in the kitchen.
• It is a crowd pleaser and a flavorful carrot cake roll.
• It’s classic, yet unique!

Tell Me About This Carrot Cake Roll

• Taste– The cake tastes sweet, yet with a warm spicy taste of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
• Texture– Creamy and smooth frosting, combined with a thin layer of dense carrot cake makes for a great combination!
• Ease– The recipe easy not difficult, just takes time to complete.
• Time– You will need approximately 2 hours to prepare the batter, bake, roll, cool, make the frosting, unroll, spread the frosting, and roll it up again.

Ingredients for Carrot Cake Roll

• All Purpose Flour– Flour is the basis of the recipe, and provides shape, substance, and structure to the roll cake. You can also use cake flour if you prefer.
• Baking Powder– This acts as a leavening agent, but also provides airiness to the recipe.
• Baking Soda– Baking soda is also a leavening agent.
• Salt– Kosher salt adds flavor and also draws out the other flavors in the recipe.
• Ground Cinnamon– Cinnamon and carrots are an unbeatable combination and create the most amazing warm flavor.
• Ground Nutmeg– Nutmeg is a common ingredient in many baked goods because of its ability to bring out the qualities of all the other flavors.
• Ground Cloves– Cloves pair well with cinnamon and have a wonderful aroma.
• Large Eggs– Eggs provide hydration, bind the ingredients together, and aide in rising the cake during baking.
• Granulated Sugar– This ingredient provides sweetness to the rolled cake.
• Pure Vanilla Extract– Vanilla adds a sweet flavor and smell to cake and frosting.
• Avocado Oil– Oil is one of the wet ingredients used to give cake a moist texture.
• Fresh Carrots– The carrots are the distinguishing ingredient for the recipe.
• Powdered Sugar– This sugar will be used to dust the top of the cooled cake roll. It is the same thing as confectioner’s sugar.

Ingredients for Cream Cheese Frosting

• Powdered Sugar– Powdered sugar is used in cream cheese icing as a base and sweetener.
• Butter– Butter adds thickness and creaminess to the icing.
• Cream Cheese– Honestly, this ingredient is the best part of the icing!
• Pure Vanilla Extract– Again, vanilla is commonly used in this type of icing and gives it flavor and an incredibly delicious aroma!

Make Carrot Cake Roll with Cream Cheese Frosting in 5 Easy Steps

1. Mix wet ingredients– In your electric mixer, whisk eggs and sugar until well combined. Then add avocado oil, vanilla, and shredded carrots.
2. Add dry ingredients– Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves to combine with wet ingredients.
3. Bake and roll cake– Pour cake batter into prepared jelly roll pan and spread evenly over the parchment paper. Bake for 11-13 minutes in the preheated oven at 350 degrees F. Carefully roll the short ends of the cake, rolling it towards the other short end. Cool on wire rack.
4. Make frosting and spread on unrolled cake– Whisk cream cheese and butter until creamed. Add in vanilla and powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Unroll cake after cooled and spread cream cheese filling evenly on the cake.
5. Roll cake– Reroll the cake again. Place on serving dish and dust with powdered sugar. Refrigerate. Enjoy!

Add-Ins for Carrot Cake Roll

• Raisins– If you have raisin lovers in the family, by all means add raisins to the batter.
• Coconut– Coconut lovers would love coconut added to the frosting.
• Glaze– Instead of powdered sugar, you can use a glaze drizzle on the carrot cake roll made of sifted powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and milk.

How to Store Leftover Carrot Cake Roll with Cream Cheese Frosting

You can store the carrot cake roll on the counter if it’s not too warm in the house for 2-3 days in an airtight container.

Otherwise, store it in the fridge in an airtight container for 5-6 days.

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Carrot Cake Roll with Cream Cheese Filling Recipe