Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible 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 will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Take For the cake batter:
- Prepare 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Make ready 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 cup granulated sugar
- Prepare 1 cup brown sugar
- Get 1 teaspoon vanilla powder or extract
- Get 3 large eggs
- Prepare 3 cups grated carrots
- Make ready For a creamy frosting:
- Make ready 1 cup cream cheese
- Get 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
Mix the flour, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg with a good pinch of salt in a bowl. Squeeze any lumps of sugar through your fingers, shaking the bowl a few times to bring the lumps to the surface. We like to think the humble carrot cake is something of a teatime classic. Try one of our go-to carrot cake recipes to keep you inspired, including a carrot and parsnip cake with rose frosting, a carrot and cheesecake layer cake and a carrot bundt cake.
Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Pre-heat oven to 350°F and Grease 2 9-inch round cake pans.
- Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon in a medium bowl until well combined.
- In a separate large bowl mix the oil, sugars, and vanilla. Then combine the 3 eggs, one at a time until properly mixed.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in 3 parts, making sure the batter is smooth after each part. Then stir in the carrots and mix again.
- Divide the batter between the prepared cake pans and bake for 20-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the center of the cake.
- After the cakes have baked take them out of the oven, let them cool for 10 minutes, and then transfer the cakes into separate plates.
- For the creamy frosting: In an electric mixer bowl beat the cream cheese for about 30 seconds then add in the sugar, 1/4 cup at a time until fluffy. Pour in the heavy whipping cream and beat for 1 minute.
- When the cakes have completely cooled, frost the top of one cake and place the other cake on top. With the remaining frosting, frost the top of the cake and serve. ✨Enjoy!✨
We like to think the humble carrot cake is something of a teatime classic. Try one of our go-to carrot cake recipes to keep you inspired, including a carrot and parsnip cake with rose frosting, a carrot and cheesecake layer cake and a carrot bundt cake. Yep, consider yourself spoilt for choice! 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.
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