The Best Homemade Carrot Cake in Florida 2025 - 2026

(Why Abuela’s Cake in Sebring Has Florida Completely Hooked)

If you’ve spent any time in Florida lately, you’ve probably heard someone whisper the same four words: “Have you tried Abuela’s?”

From Miami foodies to Tampa food trucks, Orlando moms to Panhandle grandmas, one tiny cottage bakery in Sebring has quietly earned the crown for the best homemade carrot cake in Florida. And it’s all coming from one woman’s oven.

A 20-Year Puerto Rican Recipe Ultra refined and perfected

Mayra Maldonado has been baking the exact same carrot cake for over 20 years, using the recipe her mother and a friend taught her back in Juncos Pueblo, Puerto Rico.

- Carrots grated by hand every single baking round (yes, every single one)

- Real butter, brown sugar, and the perfect whisper of warm spices

- A ridiculous half-inch of hand-whipped cream-cheese frosting

- Toasted walnuts sprinkled on while it’s still warm from the oven

No box mixes. No canned frosting. No shortcuts. Just the way Florida now expects its homemade carrot cake to taste.

Three Sizes Florida Can’t Stop Ordering

- Carrot Cake Muffins – Breakfast excuse approved

- 4-inch Mini – The legendary “personal” cake that somehow disappears in ten minutes

- 6-inch Cake – Small family gatherings, office heroes, and “I deserve this” Tuesdays

Why Florida Is Obsessed in 2025 - 2026 with The Best Homemade Carrot Cake from Abuela's Cake?

Drive through Sebring on any Saturday (Pre-Order required) and you’ll see a little Cozy house. People come from Orlando, Tampa, even the Keys just to pick up Mayra’s Fresh Baked round of Carrot Cake.

Real Florida voices:

“I grew up on Publix carrot cake. I’m sorry, Publix, it’s over.” – Sebring

“I picked up my Carrot Cake set it on the table, went to church and when I get home: Guess what? a huge piece was missing. I'm 100% sure it was my son .” – a Dear Friend

One Mom, One Oven, One Son’s Big Dream

After 20 years of watching his mom wake up before sunrise to bake, her son made her a promise:

Mom, I’m going to turn Abuela’s Cake into a franchise across the entire state so you can finally retire and never have to grate another carrot again.

That dream is now in motion. Home Based Bakers are looking to be a part of Abuela's Cake, the recipe stays exactly the same, and every new location will still feel like Mayra just pulled it out of her own oven. Because the goal isn’t just to grow a business; it’s to let the woman who started it all finally travel to beautiful places and receive a well deserved rest while her carrot cake keeps making Florida smile.

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Because some things in life should stay exactly the way Abuela made them: warm, homemade, and worth every single mile.

Abuela’s Cake – Sebring, Florida

Baked fresh daily. Loved from the Keys to the Panhandle.

Hands-down the best homemade carrot cake in Florida. Period.