Cinnamon Carrot Pie - Carrot Recipes - The Gifted Gabber (2024)

I know what you’re thinking. Cinnamon carrot pie? Carrots in a pie?!

Add More Carrot Recipes to Your Kitchen – Starting with Cinnamon Carrot Pie

Yep. Those were my first thoughts to around ten years ago when I stumbled upon a cinnamon carrot pie recipe in my Taste of Home magazine. My Hubs who was my boyfriend at the time and my parents were extremely skeptical. I could see the look of disgust on my mom’s face through the phone as I told her I had found a great pie that I was going to bring to the family Thanksgiving dinner.

This carrot recipe is one that could be served year-round. Since the pies remind me of pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie, I tend to bake this pie in fall. Did you know that carrots actually have two peak seasons? Indeed, fall is carrot season but there is a peak in late spring, as well. Obviously, carrots are sold year round so this pie could really be made any time of year – just like carrot cake.

Of course, there is an added bonus. It’s a great way to sneak some carrots into your kids’ diet, even if the carrots are laden in sugary goodness. Surely, a mom is the one who invented the first sweet carrot recipes!

Move Over Pumpkin Pie and Sweet Potato Pie!

But with one bite of the cinnamony creamy goodness of this cinnamon carrot pie, my family became believers. If you like pumpkin pie or sweet potato pie, this pie would probably be for you, too. If you don’t like those types of pies, than this one is probably not for you either. Because the filling consists of shredded carrots, the pie is not quite as creamy as pumpkin or sweet potato, but it is creamy enough.

The original recipe from Taste of Home, which I have made often, calls for sugar. The longest part of the preparation process is boiling the carrots.

Since I had an extra can of condensed milk on hand, I decided to try that in place of the sugar in an effort to gain as much creaminess as possible. I also made a few adjustments to the spices.

With a bit of whipped cream and a dusting of cinnamon, this pie is worthy of any holiday gathering. I prefer to make it with a homemade crust that isn’t too sweet since the pie itself is quite sweet. In the oven, I do prefer to cover the crust with foil for 2/3s of the cooking time to prevent the crust from over browning. As you can see in these pictures, my crust got a touch dark in some spots.

What do you think? Would your family try this cinnamon carrot pie? Maybe you are in more of a tropical kind of mood? Be sure to try out our other family favorite pies like our lemon icebox pieandkey lime pie .Also, our pineapple-coconut pieis ah-mazing!