Easiest Way to Make Delicious Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. For frosting, in another large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Pipe twelve carrots on top of cake, so each slice will have a carrot. For the frosting, blend the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla until smooth.

I am definitely going to make these for an upcoming meeting happening at a. There's a reason I've called this the The Ultimate Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting: it's extra moist and tender and flavored with the perfect blend of spices. It's then topped with a smooth and creamy whipped cream cheese frosting. You can have Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

1. It's of Cake:.
2. You need 2 cups of AP flour.
3. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
5. It's 1 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1 cup of melted butter.
7. Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
8. It's 4 of eggs.
9. Prepare 1 package of matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated).
10. Prepare 8 oz of can crushed pineapple.
11. You need 1 cup of chopped walnuts.
12. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
13. You need of Frosting:.
14. Prepare 8 oz of cream cheese.
15. You need 1 of \2 cup softened butter.
16. Prepare 1 cup of confectioner sugar.
17. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.

Pineapple carrot cake is incredibly moist, bursting with spice flavor, and garnished with smooth and tangy cream cheese frosting. I'm in freak out mode over this pineapple carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Which isn't much different from any other time I eat carrot cake, but this time it's a. Fluffy cream cheese frosting makes the ultimate topper for an ultramoist, classic carrot cake.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting step by step

1. Preheat oven 350°.
2. Sift together dry ingredients.
3. Blend in oil, sugar and eggs.
4. Beat until well blended.
5. Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla.
6. Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan.
7. Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.
8. Cool completely before removing from pan.
9. Frosting:.
10. Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended.
11. Add vanilla and mix thoroughly.
12. Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently.
13. If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt.
14. Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts.

My husband who is a huge fan of the Magnolia carrot cake loved this one and said it was the best carrot cake he had. Best ever recipe for carrot cake with cream cheese frosting! Moist and light, with just the right amount of spice. You'll find a simple cream cheese frosting recipe in the recipe card below, but if you'd like something fancier, try adding in the zest of an orange or a little triple sec orange liqueur. My lovely wife is, without a doubt, the baker in the household.

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