Grandmother's Tips for Moist Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe: 1. You can either use a food processor, or you can grate the carrots with a hand grater. 2. If you choose crushed pineapple you will not need to cut them smaller with a food processor as we did in the photos below. The recipe calls for crushed, but if you go to the pantry and only have chunks, you just improvise a little bit. 3. The optional raisins, chocolate chips and coconut flakes are just that, options.