This mini rum carrot cake recipe may be the cutest thing you make all year. They are so cute and perfect for giving away to family and friends. They are also perfect for Valentine's Day.
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Happy New Year! 2017 is among us and it's time for me to come off my vacation and comply with all my New Year's resolutions. So for my first recipe for the new year, I decided to share this Mini Rum Carrot Cake Recipe. OK, I'm lying...I originally decided to share another recipe as the first recipe of the year and for some reason, I can't find where I wrote out the recipe. 2017 is off to a great start! No worries, I'm sure I will come across that recipe one of these days but for now, I think these mini rum carrot cakes are a great way to start the year.
One of my changes that I intend to make to the blog for this year is to incorporate more Caribbean and African recipes to the blog. I'm half Jamaican and half African (Sierra Leone) so it seems like something I should just do, right? Plus, hubby and daughter are asking for it so why not. This won't become a blog only dedicated to those kinds of recipes alone, at least I don't think it will, but I would love to recreate some dishes from my culture so you all can see some of the foods I grew up eating.
So what about that this lovely Rum Carrot Cake Recipe?!? Well...I asked my Jamaican grandmother for some recipes and she laughed at me. Thanks Granny! She wasn't one to write down her recipes and she sure didn't take photos and blog about them. However, she collected a few cookbooks and was happy to hand them over to me. One of those cookbooks was Caribbean Cookbook by Rita G. Springer, published in 1968. There was a Carrot Pudding with Rum Sauce Recipe that I had to try. So I ran to my kitchen, created the recipe, and it was not a pudding at all. Instead, the batter was more like a cake batter so I decided these would become mini rum carrot cakes. I decided to create a cream cheese rum glaze to cover these cakes because cream cheese glaze rocks. Like seriously, what other glaze is better?
I decided to make these mini because the batter is not enough for a full cake recipe. I didn't want to double it and felt that mini worked better for many reasons. First, these are great to give away around the Holidays and these are a perfect treat for Valentine's Day. I don't know about you all, but me and my hunny love boozy desserts for Valentine's Day. I think it's obvious why. Second, mini recipes are just the cutest!
Well there you have it. Full video demonstration on how I make these Mini Rum Carrot Cakes is below. Here's to a wonderful 2017!
Notes on Rum Carrot Cake
- I use a nice Jamaican dark rum for this recipe. It seems to create the best flavor for me.
- I grated my carrots by hand because I find grating soothing. I used the larger side of my grater as indicated in my video, resulting in larger pieces of carrot in my cake. Feel free to grate your carrots smaller.
- I used a good old fashioned zip lock bag to glaze the cake. Just place glaze in a ziplock bag, snip a corner, and glaze onto cake. Full demonstration is in video below.
Mini Rum Carrot Cake
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups carrot grated
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon ground
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg ground
- ½ teaspoon salt
- .5 cup butter softened
- 1 egg
- ⅔ cups granulated sugar
- ¼ cup dark rum
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cups raisins
For the Cream Cheese Glaze
- 4 oz cream cheese
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tablespoon dark rum
- 2 Tablespoon milk (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Combine flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl and set aside.Cream butter in mixer until fluffy, about a minute. Add sugar until sugar and butter are fully combined. Add egg, vanilla, rum, and carrots and allow to mix in.Add flour mixture into butter mixture and mix until incorporated. Add raisins and stir in.Add batter to greased mini bundt pans. Place in preheated oven for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.Remove from oven and allow to cook on cooling rack.
Make Glaze
- While cake is baking, make glaze by creaming cream cheese in mixer until fluffy. Add powdered sugar and rum to mixture. Add milk if you want glaze to be thinner.
Place glaze in zip lock bag, snip a tiny piece of edge of zip lock bag, and glaze cake. Enjoy 🙂
Nutrition
Looking for more mini recipes for Valetine's Day? Try these Coffee Brownies for Two with Hazelnut Glaze
Looking for more Cake Recipes?
- Grapefruit Cake with Glaze
- The best Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
- Orange Poppyseed Cake
If you like this Caribbean recipe, you'll also like this Sweet Potato Pudding.
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Karen says
Hi Tanya. Will this recipe work in a Bundt pan?
Tanya says
Hi Karen, I haven't tried it in a bundt pan. I don't think it's enough batter to fill a bundt pan.
Moni love says
what is .5 cup butter??
Tanya says
1/2 of a cup.
Melissa says
What is the recipe for a regular size cake in a bundt pan?
Alcoline says
Tanya, never thought that carrot cake could go along with rum! Thanks for sharing this and I'll definitely try them out soon. Hopefully it'll look good as what you made. Haha
Elle (CleverlyChanging) says
I promised myself I would cut back on sweets this year, because sugar makes me gain wait. But your cake looks sooo... yummy. The only thing saving me, is that I would have to make it myself.
Tanya says
thank you! I've been told I need to cut back on posting the sweets and cakes but I love them so, lol
Antoinette says
This was fun to watch. Great video. My daughter loves to bake so I will definitely be sharing this recipe with her.
Tanya says
Thank you so much!
Michelle says
This looks so good! I am going to try out this recipe! Thanks so much!
Tanya says
Thank you, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Derek | Dad With A Pan says
Rum and carrot cake, now THAT'S a combo!
Ramona from Addicted to Fries says
Carrot cake is one of my favorites. I need to try this version. It looks tasty.
Thanks for sharing.
Jamala says
Btw... I love your blog name !
Jamala says
I could definitely see me gobbling down a couple of these! Yummy-licious
Anitra | The Mom on the Move says
Sounds awesome! I'm not baker, but I'm going to find someone to make this for me. And any "boozy" dessert should be mini...for obvious reasons. LOL
Carissa says
Looks Delicious!!! I love the fact that they're healthy...that's a BONUS!!!
Kim says
Oh lord! Why did I even open this post? That cake looks amazing! My mom-in-law just made us a rum carrot cake.
LaQuisha says
Queen, I don't even cook, LOL! However, you made the recipe so simple that I would love to try this. Thanks so much for sharing!