Carrot Cake. 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.
It wasn't until recently that we realized just how much we love carrot cake. This Carrot Cake is wonderfully moist, tender and easy to make! It's covered in cream cheese frosting for a perfect, classic cake! You can cook Carrot Cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Carrot Cake
- Prepare 2 cups of flour.
- You need 3 cups of shredded carrots.
- Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 4 of large eggs.
- It's 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- Prepare 1 1/4 cups of vegetable oil.
- It's 1 1/2 cup of white sugar.
- It's 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
- Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecan + 1/2 cup for garnishing.
- Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
- You need 1 tsp of ground nutmeg.
- You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare of For Frosting.
- Prepare 8 oz of cream cheese.
- Prepare 4 cups of powdered sugar.
- It's 1/2 cup of butter.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
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. This truly is the best carrot cake recipe!
Carrot Cake instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl break n whisk eggs, sugar oil and vanilla..
- Then stir in flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder, salt, baking powder, nutmeg. Then fold in shredded carrots and pecans.
- Grease and flour 9 inch baking pan.(I used 2 round ones).
- Add the batter to the baking pan and place in the oven to bake for 40 to 50 mins. When finish baking put to cool for abt 1hr.
- For frosting: In a bowl add powdered(confectionery) sugar, vanilla, soft cream cheese and butter and mix until creamed..
- Once cake is cool remove from baking pan and place on a cake rack. Spread frosting to the top and then topped with pecans. (Nb because I made 2 cakes I shave the top of one of the cake to be flat enough then I spread frosting then I place the second cake on top then spread frosting again n all over the cakes). Hope you enjoy!!!.
It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes The origins of carrot cake are disputed. My family's best carrot cake recipe dates back to my great-grandmother! We bake up a few of these carrot cakes for special occasions to make sure there's enough to go around.
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