Carrot cake
Carrot cake

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
  1. Take 3 eggs
  2. Get 3/4 cup buttermilk
  3. Get 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  4. Get 1 1/2 cup white sugar
  5. Get 2 tsp vanilla extract
  6. Take 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  7. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  8. Make ready 2 cup all-purpose flour
  9. Make ready 2 tsp baking soda
  10. Take 2 cup shredded carrot
  11. Take 1/2 cup flaked coconut
  12. Take 1/2 cup chopped almond
  13. Get 1 cup raisin

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. Preheat oven to 350°F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8x12 inch pan.
  2. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Add flour mixture and mix well.
  4. In a medium bowl, combine shredded carrots, coconut, almonds and raisins.
  5. Using a large wooden spoon or a very heavy whisk, add carrot mixture to batter and fold in well.
  6. Pour into prepared 8x12 inch pan, and bake at 350°F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour. Check with toothpick.
  7. Allow to cool for at least 20 minutes before serving.

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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