Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. I made this cake with a few modifications and he LOVES it!

Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Prepare 2 cup White sugar
  4. Make ready 2 tsp Vanilla extract
  5. Make ready 2 cup All-purpose flour
  6. Make ready 2 tsp Baking soda
  7. Make ready 2 tsp Baking powder
  8. Get 1/2 tsp Salt
  9. Take 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
  10. Prepare 3 cup Grated carrots
  11. Make ready 1 cup Chopped pecans
  12. Prepare cream cheese frosting
  13. Get 1/2 cup Butter
  14. Get 8 oz Cream cheese,softened
  15. Take 4 cup Powdered sugar
  16. Take 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  17. Make ready 1 cup Chopped pecans

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. I like using all-purpose flour, but you can substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat or white whole wheat flour.

Instructions 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.

For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise. Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work. While some recipe historians trace the roots of carrot cake back to medieval times, we disagree.

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