It isn't very often that you can convince yourself that indulging in dessert is good for you. While it's a stretch to say that carrot cake is health food, at least it counts the iron and potassium-rich vegetable as one of its key ingredients. So get a load of these recipes and drool over these photos with just slightly less guilt than you might have felt recently on National Chocolate Cake Day .

Recipes

<< Absolutely perfect carrot cake recipe

<< Fresh carrot carrot cake recipe

<< Make Cafe Sunflower's vegan carrot cake at home

<<Breakfast that tastes like carrot cake? Hop to it

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