Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Prepare 3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup plus 2tbsps of vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 cup granulated sugar
- Take 1 cup brown sugar
- Get 6 eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 1 lb (around 450g) of finely grated carrot
- Get 1 tbsp cinnamon, ground
- Make ready 1/4 tsp cloves, ground
- Make ready 1/2 tsp nutmeg, ground
- Get 2 1/2 tsp sea salt, fine
- Take 2 tbsp vanilla
Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added in the mix. The origins of carrot cake are disputed.
Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius. Grease and flour your baking tin or coat it with baking spray. I used the tin below👇🏾👇🏾
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together oil, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until combined and smooth. Add in the eggs and vanilla, and whisk until smooth
- In another separate bowl, whisk together the remaining dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt) until combined.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients into the egg mixture and stir until smooth.
- Fold in the grated carrots and stir until combined
- If you would like to add nuts and/ or raisins, stir them in at this time as well
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking tin and bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean
- Transfer the baking tin to a wire cooling rack and let the cakes cool until they reach room temperature.
- Serve as a desert, snack or have it for breakfast 😊
- For the icing use the one that you prefer😉
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