If you ever stopped to look at the carrot cake mixes at the store, you would quickly realize that carrots are more of an afterthought in the ingredients rather than the main event. Those bits of orange in that cake, yeah, they aren’t carrots. They are carrot flavored pieces of corn syrup. If you are lucky, somewhere down by the bottom of the list, where it says “There is 2% or less of” you might find carrot powder.

I don’t know about you, but when I want carrot cake, I expect there to actuall...