Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. 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 meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Get (cake):
- Get 2 cups flour
- Take 1 cup brown sugar
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 2 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 2 tsp all spice
- Get 1 cup oil
- Take 3 cups grated carrots
- Take 4 eggs
- Prepare (icing):
- Prepare 6 tbsp butter
- Prepare 3 cups icing sugar
- Take 3 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 6 oz creme cheese
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.
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350° F
- Combine cake ingredients with an electric mixer and pour into two buttered pans. Bake for 55 minutes.
- Meanwhile blend together icing ingredients until smooth.
- Once carrot cake is cool, spread icing on evenly and enjoy!
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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