This carrot souffle is made with pureed carrots, sugar, butter and eggs, all baked together to golden brown perfection. A light and fluffy side dish option that pairs well with chicken and beef, but can also be served as a dessert offering!
I love to serve easy and elegant side dishes with my meals, such as candied sweet potatoes, corn pudding and this show stopping carrot souffle. This is the absolute best way to enjoy carrots!
Have you ever tried a carrot souffle? If not, you’re totally missing out! This dish takes carrots to the next level, and the results are nothing short of spectacular.
How to cook carrots
This recipe starts with cooked carrots, which you can either boil or steam. To boil the carrots, bring a pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add peeled and sliced carrots, then cook for 15-18 minutes or until carrots are very soft. To steam your carrots, place one inch of water in a pot and bring to a boil. Place the carrots in the pot and cover the pot. Cook for 20-25 minutes or until carrots are tender. Drain the water away and you have cooked carrots ready to use in souffle.
How do you make carrot souffle?
Place cooked carrots in the bowl of a food processor along with butter, eggs, vanilla extract and cinnamon. Puree to combine the ingredients. Add the flour, baking powder and sugar, then pulse until just combined. Spread the carrot mixture into a baking dish, then bake until browned and cooked through.
Tips for the perfect souffle
- I find that a food processor provides the smoothest texture for this souffle. If you don’t have a food processor, you can use a blender, or simply mash your carrots by hand. If you choose to mash the carrots by hand, the souffle will have a coarser texture but will still be delicious.
- This dish can be prepared up to 24 hours before you plan to bake it. Store the unbaked souffle covered in the refrigerator, then bake as directed. You may need to add a few more minutes to the bake time to compensate for starting with a cold dish.
- Carrot souffle can be served as a side dish or as a dessert. I’ve written this recipe to have a moderate level of sweetness, which works well as a side dish. If you’d like to serve it as a dessert, you can add 1/4 cup more granulated sugar, then top the finished souffle with powdered sugar before serving.
- Fresh or frozen carrots both work just fine in this recipe.
- I love to serve this recipe as a side dish at Easter along with other spring time delights such as Easter ham, peanut butter eggs and roasted green beans.
Carrot Souffle Flavor Variations
While this carrot casserole is delicious as-is, you can add other ingredients to the mix to customize it to your tastes.
- Flavorings: Amp up the flavor with the addition of minced crystallized ginger, pumpkin pie spice or orange zest.
- Toppings: Add a brown sugar streusel topping, chopped pecans or miniature marshmallows to make your souffle extra special.
- Veggies: Swap out the carrots for a different vegetable such as sweet potatoes, parsnips, butternut squash or kabocha squash.
This souffle is a must-try recipe. It’s great for the holidays, or for any time when you want to dress up regular old carrots into something extraordinary.
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Carrot Souffle
Ingredients
- 2 pounds carrots peeled and thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- cooking spray
- powdered sugar for garnish optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 2 quart baking dish with cooking spray.
- Bring a pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the carrots, and cook for 15-18 minutes or until carrots are very tender.
- Drain the carrots and place them in the bowl of a food processor. Add the butter, vanilla extract, cinnamon and eggs. Process until smooth.
- Add the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar to the food processor. Pulse until just combined.
- Pour the carrot mixture into the prepared dish. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown and set. Let stand for 5 minutes, then serve. Garnish with powdered sugar if desired.
Can I prepare the mixture but bake it the next day
Yes that’s fine!
This is one excellent recipe. Not sure if this is good or bad, but no one would have guessed it was made with carrots. Everyone thought it was sweet potato. Will definitely make this again.
This carrot souffle is AMAZING. I couldn’t imagine how this could also be dessert, but WOW — it certainly could be. It’s so light, sweet, and fluffy. I love carrots so much, but it didn’t taste like carrots; just some sort of sweet souffle-ish goodness. I made it exactly as the recipe said (except that I used Bob Red Mill’s Paleo Baking Flour, and it was outstanding.
My 2-quart casserole dish was rectangular, and the only thing I’d do different would be to use maybe an 8″x 8″ square so that it would be taller in the pan. Mine was probably an inch in height. Maybe it would have risen more with regular flour; I don’t know. Either way, this will be a regular side dish. It was unbelievably easy, too! I made it the night before, refrigerated it, and then cooked it the next morning. Before serving, I sprinkled the powdered sugar on top, as suggested. Perfection! THANK YOU for this recipe!
Should the cooked carrots be cooled before adding the eggs to the bowl?
You can cool them slightly for 5-7 minutes but they don’t need to be room temperature.
Yes cool your 🥕. If you don’t the eggs may scramble in the carrots. I love this dish so do my grandchildren.
About how many cups of pureed carrots is this?
It should be about 6 cups!
I served this for Christmas and it was a big hit. Some people thought it was Sweet Potato Souffle but not exactly, ha! I am making it for the second time today. This is a definitely a keeper.
This is delicious!! Quite easy to make (I have a food processor.). This is a great recipe. Thank you.
How to reheat??
Am traveling with it
You can warm it covered in the oven at 325 degrees F!
Great recipes! Thank you for the meal planning kit.
I made this for the Very first time my family loved it. I love it. We will make it from now on. Thank you so much for this great recipe.!
I’ve made it twice in a month. Decreased the sugar by half, but that was only thing I changed. Everyone loves it.
Have made it as is and also doubled it. Very popular wherever I bring it.
This is a great recipe and very easy to make. I have made it several times and received raves. The only thing thatI have changed is that I put in a 1/4 cup of bourbon. Thanks 🙏
Love this recipe! I’ve made it the day before and put it in the fridge and bake to the long with whatever meat I’m baking. I’m wondering if I’m able to bake it for and warm it on the day of serving. Does anyone have experience with that?
First time making carrot souffle and this was delicious – I could have eaten 1/2 the dish ! I used a little less butter and sugar and one less egg and it was still sweet and rich tasting. I will experiment with even less sugar and butter next time and hope it will still be good.
I made this as a gluten free/lactose free chocolate dessert. All purpose gf flour, ghee instead of butter, and added 3-4 Tb of nice unsweetened cocoa powder. It’s been a huge hit. It’s even better chilled!
Can this be made with Bob’s Gluten Free flour?
I haven’t tried it this way but my best guess is that it should be ok!
Love this carrot 🥕 recipe
Can I freeze this after baking? Or maybe before but mixed up & put in freezer bag? It is baking now. My children loved making it with me.
I think it would be better to freeze after baking!
I have been making carrot soufflé’s for over 10 years and to save time I mix the ingredients together and frreze them. I thaw the mixture in the refrigerator a couple of days before hand and then bake. Turns out perfectly.
Did you mix ALL ingredients together before freezing (eggs)? I was thinking of preparing the day before and refrigerating in a casserole dish….