Ooey Gooey Carrot Butter Cake 🥕

If you’re looking for a delicious ooey gooey treat for Easter; my ooey gooey carrot butter cake is just the thing to wow your guests!  This is a simple and easy recipe that tastes like you worked all day in the kitchen. But, in reality it’s just pantry ingredients including a box of cake mix, cream cheese, butter, carrots and shredded coconut! SO if you’ve got the fever for an ooey gooey carroty treat…let’s make it!!

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Ooey Gooey Carrot Butter Cake

Melissa Jo

If you're looking for a delicious ooey gooey treat for Easter; my ooey gooey carrot butter cake is just the thing to wow your guests!  This is a simple and easy recipe that tastes like you worked all day in the kitchen. But, in reality it's just pantry ingredients including a box of cake mix, cream cheese, butter, carrots and shredded coconut! SO if you've got the fever for an ooey gooey carroty treat…let's make it!!

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 15 people

Calories 346 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 box of carrot cake mix
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes
• 1 cup shredded carrots
• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 2 sticks of butter softened
• 16 oz powdered sugar

Instructions

 

• First make the dough, combine: 1 box of cake mix, 1 stick of softened butter, 2 eggs and mix. Then mix in the shredded carrots and coconut flakes.
• Dip your fingers in ice water and press the dough into the bottom of a 9×13 greased baking dish
• In another bowl, add 1 softened block of cream cheese, 1 stick of softened butter, 2 eggs, and 16 oz. of powdered sugar.
• Scoop out 2 tbsp. of the powdered sugar and set aside for garnish
• Mix the ingredients together (it will be slightly lumpy)
• Pour the batter over the bottom layer and smooth it out.
• Bake in the oven at 350 degrees F for at least 1 hour.
• Remove from the oven, sprinkle powdered sugar over the top, and let it rest for at least 1 hour.
• Slice and serve them up! ENJOY! =-)

Notes

• This cake must cool for one hour before slicing…no cheating! 
• Fill a small bowl with ice. Dip your fingers in the ice water when forming your bottom crust, press down with your fingers for a smooth finish.
• Use a 9 x 13 size baking dish

 

Nutrition

Calories: 346kcalCarbohydrates: 63gProtein: 4gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 59mgSodium: 326mgPotassium: 106mgFiber: 1gSugar: 47gVitamin A: 1695IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 100mgIron: 1mg

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