Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Different from traditional carrot cakes, this cake is extremely moist and flavorful and is topped with a buttermilk glaze while still warm. Try it and I think you will agree that it is the best!! My fiance LOVES carrot cake, and yesterday was his birthday so I decided to look for a carrot cake recipe. He was very specific that he wanted pineapple, coconut and lots of nuts in his carrot cake.
Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Carrot Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Prepare 2 cups flour
- Get 3 cups shredded carrots
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 4 large eggs
- Get 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup white sugar
- Get 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Take 1 cup chopped pecan + 1/2 cup for garnishing
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla
- Take 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare For Frosting
- Make ready 8 oz cream cheese
- Make ready 4 cups powdered sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup butter
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined. Carrot cake is moist, rich in flavor and melts in your mouth!
Instructions to make Carrot Cake:
- 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!!!
Add the eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined. Carrot cake is moist, rich in flavor and melts in your mouth! This scrumptious dessert is what everyone will be raving about! This truly is one of the best carrot cake recipes alone with whole wheat carrot cake bread, frosted carrot cake cookies or carrot cake cupcakes. All my carrot cake recipes are made with fresh carrots, the perfect blend of spices and a sweet, heavenly frosting!
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