Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little 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 popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Get 2 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup oil
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Take 2 1/4 cup flour
- Make ready 2 tsp salt
- Get 2 tsp baking soda
- Take 2 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Get 3 cup finely grated carrots
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 300°F
- Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans
- Combine sugar, oil and eggs in stand mixer. Mix at medium speed for 2 minutes
- Add dry ingredients, mix at low speed for 1 minute
- Add carrots, mix until incorporated, about 1 minute
- Divide batter evenly between the 2 cake pans. Use spatula to move batter from center of pans to the edges
- Bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean
- Cool on rack for 1 hour, then frost with Duncan Hines cream cheese frosting
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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