Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
Make ready 1 lb Carrots grated
Get 1 cup Sugar
Take 1 cup Brown sugar
Get 1 1/2 cup Canola oil
Prepare 2 tbsp Canola oil
Take 6 Eggs
Get 1 tbsp Vanilla
Prepare 3 1/4 cup Flour
Make ready 1 tbsp Baking soda
Make ready 2 tsp Salt
Get 1 tsp Baking powder
Prepare 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
Prepare 1 pinch Cloves
Take 1 tbsp Cinnamon
Get Frosting
Prepare 3 8 ounce bricks cream cheese at room temperature
Prepare 1 cup Butter at room temperature
Make ready 1 tbsp Vanilla
Prepare 1/2 tsp Salt
Prepare 6 cup Powdered sugar
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
Preheat oven to 350 or 300 to bake at a longer time to control raising if doing a layer cake
Thoroughly grease and flour three 8 inch or two 9 inch cake pans or use a large rectangular cake pan
Grate 1 pound of Carrots and set aside
Mix oil sugar and brown sugar until smooth
Add eggs one at a time and mix
Add vanilla and mix until smooth
In a separate bowl whisk all dry ingredients
Add dry ingredients to boil sugar mixture at medium until just combined scraping bowl at least once
Fold in carrots (nuts raisins and or pineapple optional) at this time by hand
Bake 25 to 30 minutes for three 8 inch pans. Adjust cook time for other options. Cool on wire rack's turnout of pans onto plates after leveling with knife and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before frosting. May be chilled until the next day if you wish
While your cake is in the oven or when you're ready to frost cream together cream cheese and butter on medium for one minute or until there are no lumps
Add vanilla and salt and mix until combined
On medium low mix in powdered sugar gradually then on medium-high until combined once all powdered sugar has been added
Use water tablespoon at a time too thin or more powdered sugar to thicken your frosting if necessary
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