Glazed Carrot Cake Donuts
BEST Glazed Carrot Cake Donuts recipe! These homemade baked donuts are made with carrots and taste just like carrot cake! This recipe is easy to make and the donuts are moist and full of flavor!
Do you love donuts? Do you love carrot cake? Then I have the perfect recipe for you!
This Winter we got very lucky with our carrots. We didn’t have high hopes for them but upon one Spring cleanup day we were surprised to find pounds of carrots hiding under the soil waiting for us to find them. It was a giant surprise and it created some giant garden smiles
Fresh Carrots Recipe
Aren’t they just beauties? I just can’t get enough of fresh carrots. There’s nothing like the taste of a carrot that was just picked. Sometimes I nibble on one as soon as I pick it, I just can’t help myself. So I took the carrots down to the kitchen and pondered… What to make?
For dinner I made this Roasted Carrot Soup (by the way, it’s delicious!) but then I also wanted carrots for dessert!
(Reminder: Never throw away your carrot tops! Make this Carrot Tops Vegetable Broth!)
I was going to make carrot cake, but I’ve had a real craving for donuts lately so I decided to mix the best of both worlds – cake and donuts!
CARROT CAKE DONUTS
These donuts taste just like carrot cake with a sweet vanilla glaze on top. Think of a bakery glazed donut + a carrot cake…. all as fresh as possible. The freshness of the carrots really make these donuts something special!
Carrot Cake Ingredients
These donuts basically require the same ingredients as carrot cake.
You’ll need egg, orange juice, melted butter, vanilla, brown sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and allspice. And then you’ll need shredded carrots!
The vanilla glaze on top is a tried and tested recipe that I use all the time! You make it with milk, vanilla extract and powdered sugar.
These donuts are definitely a keeper in my garden notebook now. I can’t wait for our next carrot harvest to make (and devour!) some more Carrot Cake Donuts!
Hope you enjoy these donuts!
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Glazed Carrot Cake Donuts
BEST Glazed Carrot Cake Donuts recipe! These homemade baked donuts are made with carrots and taste just like carrot cake! This recipe is easy to make and the donuts are moist and full of flavor!
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon allspice
- 1 ¼ cup shredded carrots
For the glaze
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cups confectioners powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Beat egg in large bowl. Add orange juice, butter, vanilla and sugar, beat well.
- Stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and allspice and mix till moistened.
- Gently fold in shredded carrots.
- Fill donut pan up.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes. Let cool for 2 minutes.
For the glaze
- Combine milk and vanilla in a saucepan and heat over medium heat.
- Stir in confectioners powdered sugar into milk mixture. Whisk slowly, until well combined.
- Remove from heat and dip each donut into glaze.
- Set on rack until cool enough to eat.
I bet the fresh carrots makes such a huge difference Pamela!! You’re making me want my own garden…dangerous desires for my black thumb. 🙂 These are beautiful! pinned!
There are just far too many awesome looking carrot cake recipes being posted right now! These donuts sound just so darn good. And those carrots are so pretty!
love the last picture..ok send me some!
Can you say perfect or shall I? I love these donuts 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Carrot cake made into a donut – genius!!
That bunny at the end is too stinkin’ cute! And I can’t believe you grew those gorgeous carrots! We tried carrots 2 years ago and they didn’t really amount to much. The carrot cake donuts look absolutely to die for, with that sticky glaze, yum! Love that you added orange juice, I bet that’s just divine…!
I love that your version of Farm to Table means garden to dessert! These donuts look AMAZING! What a yummy twist on carrot cake!
Pamela, those donuts look insanely delicious! I kinda want one right now for a late night snack… 🙂
Carrot cake donuts? What a great treat!
Gorgeous carrots from the garden and glazed carrot cake donuts! You have me drooling, Pamela! You know how crazy I am for carrot cake anything. 🙂 Thanks ever so much for sharing, girl. I cannot wait to break out my donut pan and bake these!!
wow! carrot cake donuts! such a great idea!
Oooh I am craving these! I love the OJ and warm spices in the mix. What glorious carrots too, Pamela! 🙂
I love that you made carrot cake donuts with those beautiful carrots! Mmm, I can just imagine how fresh these donuts must taste!
I would so have these – I haven’t made ANYTHING carrot all Easter and that needs to change!! These doughnuts look like the perfect breakfast!!
Haha … that little bunny chomping on a carrot is so cute, Pamela!
I love your photos in this post … they are really selling those yummy doughnuts to me! And how amazing to make them with your homegrown carrots! 🙂
How wonderful to find all those carrots. What a harvest! I love the donuts you made and they sound wonderful with the carrot flavouring. What a great use for those carrots and the glaze looks gorgeous too xx
I made your lovely galzed carrot cake doughnuts & loved them so much, my dear friend! Divine! x
Such a creative recipe!, i’m going to be honest sometimes i find donuts a little too stodgy but i reckon with the carrot in them it would give a much more interesting flavour. Delicious.
Such a clever idea!!!
I’m in love with these doughnuts! Carrot cake is one of my (many) weaknesses and so are doughnuts. Love that you got to use your garden fresh carrots!
Love these- carrot cake donuts are like the best idea ever! Have a great weekend!
Perfection for Easter. I know that little darling bunny would not say not to a carrot donut! Adorable!
Blessings dearest. Catherine xo
Too cool to find these beauties after winter. And what a great idea to make gorgeous donuts. Amazing job.
Congrats on all those carrots your garden produced — how exciting! These donuts look divine, and I love that there’s orange juice in them — I love orange flavor in my carrot cake. 🙂
We dug up the last of our carrots a couple months ago, and now I wish I had them back so I could make these donuts – they are an inspired idea! There is nothing quite so delicious as a freshly dug carrot – can’t wait till we have them again 🙂
You are so right – nothing like fresh carrots! And even though am not a huge fan of ried donuts – I think I could devour a tray of these baked ones!
Oh man these look amazing!! I’m seriously salivating over here!!YUM! Perfect for Easter Brunch!!
Oh Pamela – they look and sound delicious!
Where did you get that little rabbit chomping on a carrot, is that a little video or your own real rabbit? I used to have a rabbit growing up and they make really good pets. These donuts look pretty tasty for sure Pamela!
Hi Cheri, I just found it online.. I wish I had a cute little rabbit! 🙂
I’m so impressed by how well you handle this container gardening thing. Some of my stuff is great (like my malabar vining spinach) but most of it just sucks (like my eggplant, cucumber, tomatoes, the list goes on…)
These donuts look amazing!! I so love that you made them with carrots from your own farm!!! I have sadly never had a freshly picked carrot being the suburbanite that I am. But, I can still make these donuts!! I am sure my store bought carrots won’t quite be the same but these will taste good none the less!! 🙂
These are such a delicious answer to the carrots, curently sitting in my fridge. Not only do I heart sugar glazed carrots, but I’m also a sucker for runny icing. Yum!
this looks so good! 🙂
Nothing beats freshly picked carrots! I can’t wait for summer so the ones in my yard grow ahhhhh I love them. And these donuts?? Cutest idea ever, and they look pretty delish yum!
Happy Sunday! xx
Love the glaze on these. They look fantastic!
I’m jealous of your surprise carrots! The only surprises my garden has given is me “surprise, you accidentally brought a bee into your house”. Carrots are a definite upgrade! My sister made carrot cake muffins for dessert today, and all I could think about was how I wished they were donuts. Genius way to use some carrots!
I seriously need these in my life!!!
These look gorgeous Pamela! I love carrot cake everything and I can imagine how amazing these taste with the orange juice and fresh carrots from your garden – totally drooling and I can’t wait to try this out – that glaze has me totally mesmerized!
Pamela, I would love to go into my garden and find beautiful carrots like that hiding. It would be a miracle since I haven’t planted any, but wouldn’t that be exciting. lol
I was thinking carrot cake donuts would be tasty and here I found your recipe. I can’t wait to try these! Pinning!
Mmm…those look delish! I love carrot cake!
Your carrots are beautiful! Such a great surprise during spring cleanup! And what a creative and inventive idea to turn them into donuts!!!
What a great flavor idea for donuts! They look delicious!
Oh wow! These look so good!
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Hi,
Absolutely loving this recipe and would love to try them but I do not have a donut pan, is there any other way of baking them? Would the batter hold their shape naturally? Or could I deep fry them?
Thanks in advance 🙂
Hey Audrey, do you have a muffin pan? If so, you could try that and filling them up 1/2 way. Won’t be the exact shape of a donut, more like a donut muffin.. still delicious!
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I have a *minor* obsession with carrots. (OK, OK, major obsession) And then carrot cake? And then donut form? I’m about to faint… this sounds so delicious and I’m pretty sure I could eat the entire dozen by myself in a day. Did I just challenge myself? Anyway, yumming and pinning these now and can’t wait to try!
I just harvested a ton of carrots from my garden! Looks like these are going on my to-make list!! Yum!
I love that you’re picking your own carrots, you go girl!
I can’t believe that you combo’d carrots & donuts, genius!
Haha, thanks Kari!
Wow…these are making my mouth water!! I’ll definitely have to try these. My little guy LOVES all things pumpkin 🙂
Wow! These are awesome! I am so going to be making these! I know a lot of people who would absolutely LOVE these! I can’t to try them!
So happy you’re going to make these Sarah, I hope you enjoy!
That’s cute, what a creative recipe! The carrot cake donuts look delicious. I love the sweet blend of carrot with orange juice and that sticky glaze, the flavor is interestingly delicious.
Oh my gosh this looks so good! I am over here drooling over this dish right now. I am all over this. I can’t even stop starring. This looks incredibly rich, fudgy and tempting!
Wow, really, I can’t get over that delicious taste! So simple and yet – sooo great. Thank you for this recipe.
Glad you liked these donuts Nikita!
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I have been thinking that it is about time I brought out my doughnut pan to make some delicious doughnuts and now that I see this recipe I know exactly which ones I want to make. These sound so wonderful!xo
Enjoy Carol, hope you love the donuts!
can I use organic baby food carrots? if so how many jars or cups. thank you
Hey Sharyn, do you mean baby carrot puree?
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Can I substitute apple juice for orange juice ?
Yes you can!
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Would this recipe work if I use oil instead of butter for a dairy free version?
Hey Yasmin, I never made these donuts with oil so I can’t be 100% sure oil will work. If you do give it a try, I would only use 3 tablespoons of oil instead of the 1/4 cup butter. Good luck, and let me know how they turn out!