A good carrot cake recipe This is a recipe for a good carrot cake that came from Peggy Fiedler some years ago. The orange rind in the icing is a post-Peggy innovation. The cake works well as a two-layer cake, but you'll need to make more icing than is called for in the recipe. Cake 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 2 teasp. baking soda 2 teasp. cinnamon 1 teasp. salt 3 cups grated carrots 4 eggs 1 teasp.