What do you think about this contentious addition?

Weighing in at 2 pounds and 9 ounces, Costcos carrot bar cake is big but not too big.

Digging into it, I was pleasantly surprised by how soft it was.

Costco Carrot Cake Bar

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Its a tall cake, so a thin slice does the trick.

Plus, it has the ideal frosting-to-cake ratio.

Carrot Bar Cake $18.99 good, but has raisins,the headline on one post reads.

Costco Carrot Cake

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What follows is what can only be described as a raisin war.

Love carrot cake and love raisins….. cant do both together unfortunately, one user commented.

A carrot cake SHOULD have raisins, another chimed in.

Costco Carrot Cake Raisins

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I dont think Ive ever had carrot cake with raisins.

I must be a lucky person, an anti-raisin commenter wrote.

Original and more authenticrecipesall have raisins, another argued.

A quick poll of my colleagues revealed that nearly all of them fell firmly in the raisins-dont-belong-in-carrot-cake camp.

While I love the pop of sweetness raisins give to carrot cake, apparently not everyone feels that way.

But you know who does?

The great minds at Costco.

I highly recommend grabbing one while it’s possible for you to.