carrot cake
carrot cake

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna 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 popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. carrot cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make carrot cake:
  1. Make ready 2 cup flour
  2. Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
  3. Take 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  4. Prepare 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  5. Take 2 cup granulated sugar
  6. Take 1 cup vegetable oil
  7. Make ready 4 eggs
  8. Prepare 2 cup grated carrots
  9. Take 8 oz crushed pineapple, drained
  10. Take 1/2 cup chopped nuts (walnuts)
  11. Make ready 8 oz cream cheese
  12. Take 1/2 cup butter or margarine
  13. Make ready 3 1/2 cup icing sugar
  14. Get 2 tsp vanilla

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. Sift flour; add baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon.
  2. Add sugar and oil and beat until fluffy and creamy
  3. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between additions
  4. Add pineapple, carrots and nuts
  5. Pour into a greased and floured 9" round cake pan
  6. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for 40-45 minutes or until tester comes out clean. cool completely.
  7. Combine cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and vanilla and mix well
  8. Split cake in half ; fill and frost

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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