Mama's Carrot Cake
Mama's Carrot Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mama's carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mama's Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mama's Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

The cake layers can be made ahead and frozen up to one month. The moistness and flavor of this Mama Dip's Carrot Cake can't be beat. This carrot cake has a super creamy cream cheese frosting and the crunch of toasted walnuts.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mama's carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mama's Carrot Cake:
  1. Prepare Carrot Cake(wet ingredients)
  2. Make ready 3 large eggs
  3. Prepare 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  4. Make ready 2 cup sugar
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  6. Take Carrot Cake(dry ingredients)
  7. Take 2 cup all-purpose flour
  8. Take 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  9. Get 2 tsp baking soda
  10. Take 1/2 tsp salt
  11. Take Star Ingredients
  12. Prepare 1 lb carrots
  13. Take 1/2 cup chopped raisins or other(your choice)
  14. Prepare 2 piece crystalized ginger
  15. Take 1/2 cup chopped pecans or other(your choice)
  16. Prepare Icing of the Carrot Cake
  17. Get 8 oz cream cheese
  18. Get 2 cup confectioner sugar
  19. Get 2 tbsp whipping cream
  20. Get 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
  21. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt

Bahama Mama Carrot Cake (The Bahamas) Be the first to review this recipe. This carrot cake gets added flavor from pineapple, coconut and a range of spices. This paleo carrot cake is the best carrot cake you'll ever eat; it is moist, tender, sweet, and subtly spiced. The best thing about it is that it is super easy to pull together.

Instructions to make Mama's Carrot Cake:
  1. Prepare Bowl #1 and begin adding the following ingredients: These ingredients will be your wet ingredients!
  2. After you've finished step 1, mix all the wet ingredients with a mixer(of course)
  3. Prepare Bowl #2 with the following ingredients: These will be your dry ingredients!
  4. Hope you have a third bowl! Now, you will prepare a mix of the following ingredients: These ingredients will be your star ingredients!
  5. We must shred the carrots! So with a grater, grate the carrots individually. After you're finished, toss the grated carrots into Bowl #3. Don't forget to clean and peel the carrots!:)
  6. Chop the raisins and pecans(or other, if you prefer). Then, throw into bowl.
  7. To finish up this bowl, chop the crystalized ginger. The ginger might stick together, but eh…who cares?
  8. Now, you will mix Bowl #1, 2, and 3. Typically, toss all ingredients into the largest bowl.
  9. Mix/Stir all ingredients in bowl. (If it looks like cheese soup, you're doing it right!)
  10. Now grab two 9-inch circular baking pans. At this time, preheat your oven too 400°.
  11. Add enough oil to smear every inch of the pan with your finger.
  12. Add flour to coat the pan. *Pour flour and gently tap the bottom of the pan, so that flour spreads over pan. This should coat whole pan!
  13. Pour Carrot Cake batter into both pans.
  14. Place Carrot Cake batter into preheated oven, bake in 400° for 10 minutes. Start the timer!
  15. After 10 minutes, turn the oven down to 350° and bake for 30-35 minutes.
  16. Let's begin the frosting! You'll need the following ingredients: These will be your Icing of the Carrot Cake ingredients!
  17. Mix together with mixer. Don't forget to lick the spoon;)
  18. After 30-35 minutes, your Carrot Cake should be done. *If you're not sure the cake is ready, insert a knife. If no batter shows up on the knife's blade…it's done!:)
  19. After you've taken the Carrot Cake out of the oven, let cool for 10 minutes. You don't want the icing to melt:(
  20. After Carrot Cake is cooled, you can start frosting the two-layered cake! Make sure you get on-top, and in-between.
  21. You're all finished and the Carrot Cake is ready to serve!:)

It is also packed with nutrients and vitamins from the carrots and raisins and healthy fats from walnuts, which makes it perfect as a healthier snack or dessert. This recipe from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, restaurateur Mildred "Mama Dip" Council is one of the best carrot cakes we've tested. This carrot cake with pineapple makes it so moist and the addition of coconut adds a sweet, delicate flavor that you're going to love! I have many carrot cake recipes on my site - like these Carrot Cake Bars - but they are all variations of this one. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter.

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