Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Get 2 cups flour
- Get 3 cups shredded carrots
- Get 2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 2 tsp baking soda
- Get 4 large eggs
- Make ready 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup white sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Make ready 1 cup chopped pecan + 1/2 cup for garnishing
- Get 2 tsp vanilla
- Get 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare For Frosting
- Take 8 oz cream cheese
- Get 4 cups powdered sugar
- Take 1/2 cup butter
- Get 1 tsp vanilla
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl break n whisk eggs, sugar oil and vanilla.
- Then stir in flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder, salt, baking powder, nutmeg. Then fold in shredded carrots and pecans
- Grease and flour 9 inch baking pan.(I used 2 round ones)
- Add the batter to the baking pan and place in the oven to bake for 40 to 50 mins. When finish baking put to cool for abt 1hr
- For frosting: In a bowl add powdered(confectionery) sugar, vanilla, soft cream cheese and butter and mix until creamed.
- Once cake is cool remove from baking pan and place on a cake rack. Spread frosting to the top and then topped with pecans. (Nb because I made 2 cakes I shave the top of one of the cake to be flat enough then I spread frosting then I place the second cake on top then spread frosting again n all over the cakes). Hope you enjoy!!!
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