Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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. This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
  1. Make ready 4 Eggs
  2. Take 1 1/4 cup Vegetable oil
  3. Make ready 2 cup White sugar
  4. Prepare 2 tsp Vanilla extract
  5. Make ready 2 cup All-purpose flour
  6. Take 2 tsp Baking soda
  7. Make ready 2 tsp Baking powder
  8. Prepare 1/2 tsp Salt
  9. Prepare 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
  10. Make ready 3 cup Grated carrots
  11. Get 1 cup Chopped pecans
  12. Get cream cheese frosting
  13. Prepare 1/2 cup Butter
  14. Prepare 8 oz Cream cheese,softened
  15. Make ready 4 cup Powdered sugar
  16. Take 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  17. Take 1 cup Chopped pecans

Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added in the mix. This truly is the best carrot cake recipe!

Steps to make Carrot Cake:
  1. For the carrot cake preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9x13 pan inch pan.
  2. In a large bowl, beat together egg, oil, white sugar, and 2 teaspoon vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour in prepared pans.
  3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted to the center of cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
  4. To make cream cheese frosting: in a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in the chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake.

It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting. Spoon ¼ of the icing on top and spread in an even layer. A wonderfully moist, perfectly spiced carrot cake recipe. This Carrot Cake with pineapple and coconut is a family favorite, made every year for all sorts of celebrations from birthdays to Easter! Originally from the Silver Palate cookbook, we've made several.

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