Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Make ready Carrots grated
- Take Sugar
- Get Brown sugar
- Make ready Canola oil
- Get Canola oil
- Get Eggs
- Get Vanilla
- Prepare Flour
- Take Baking soda
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready Baking powder
- Get Nutmeg
- Take Cloves
- Prepare Cinnamon
- Prepare Frosting
- Take 8 ounce bricks cream cheese at room temperature
- Prepare Butter at room temperature
- Get Vanilla
- Get Salt
- Take Powdered sugar
This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter.
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 or 300 to bake at a longer time to control raising if doing a layer cake
- Thoroughly grease and flour three 8 inch or two 9 inch cake pans or use a large rectangular cake pan
- Grate 1 pound of Carrots and set aside
- Mix oil sugar and brown sugar until smooth
- Add eggs one at a time and mix
- Add vanilla and mix until smooth
- In a separate bowl whisk all dry ingredients
- Add dry ingredients to boil sugar mixture at medium until just combined scraping bowl at least once
- Fold in carrots (nuts raisins and or pineapple optional) at this time by hand
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes for three 8 inch pans. Adjust cook time for other options. Cool on wire rack's turnout of pans onto plates after leveling with knife and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before frosting. May be chilled until the next day if you wish
- While your cake is in the oven or when you're ready to frost cream together cream cheese and butter on medium for one minute or until there are no lumps
- Add vanilla and salt and mix until combined
- On medium low mix in powdered sugar gradually then on medium-high until combined once all powdered sugar has been added
- Use water tablespoon at a time too thin or more powdered sugar to thicken your frosting if necessary
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