Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Get 2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 teaspoon baking powder
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1 cup brown sugar
- Take 1/2 white sugar
- Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Make ready 4 large eggs
- Make ready 4 large peeled and grated carrot
- Get 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- Prepare Frosting
- Prepare 250 g cream cheese at room temperature
- Take 1 cup icing sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup cream
- Prepare 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecan nuts for topping
This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter.
Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees
- Mix all the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, brown sugar, white sugar, in one bowl exclude the carrot and pecan nuts
- In another bowl mix all the wet ingredients.
- Add the wet ingredients - vegetable oil, vanilla essence, eggs, grated carrots, pecans to the dry and mix until it is all absorbed. Then add in the carrot and pecan nuts.
- Grease an oven proof dish, line with spray oil and add parchment paper if you want
- Add mixture into the pan and put in the oven for 50-60 minutes
- Poke the inside of the cake with a tooth pick to see if it is cooked on the inside
- Remove from the oven and let it sit and cool down
- In a bowl use a hand mixer to whip the cream cheese. Slowly add in the icing sugar and cream white continuing to mix
- Frost the cake with the frosting once the cake has cooled down. Add the pecan nuts on top in the end
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