Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Browse & Discover Thousands of Cooking Food & Wine Book Titles, for Less. 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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
  1. Make ready 4 Eggs
  2. Get 1 1/4 cup Vegetable oil
  3. Prepare 2 cup White sugar
  4. Take 2 tsp Vanilla extract
  5. Take 2 cup All-purpose flour
  6. Get 2 tsp Baking soda
  7. Take 2 tsp Baking powder
  8. Take 1/2 tsp Salt
  9. Prepare 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
  10. Make ready 3 cup Grated carrots
  11. Get 1 cup Chopped pecans
  12. Prepare cream cheese frosting
  13. Take 1/2 cup Butter
  14. Prepare 8 oz Cream cheese,softened
  15. Make ready 4 cup Powdered sugar
  16. Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  17. Get 1 cup Chopped pecans

Add the eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined. In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.

Steps to make Carrot Cake:
  1. For the carrot cake preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9x13 pan inch pan.
  2. In a large bowl, beat together egg, oil, white sugar, and 2 teaspoon vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour in prepared pans.
  3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted to the center of cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
  4. To make cream cheese frosting: in a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in the chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake.

I like using all-purpose flour, but you can substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat or white whole wheat flour. 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.

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