Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pumpkin carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spoon and level the flour: if you pack in too much flour, the cake with be drier, denser, and less moist. Here's a great video showing how to properly measure flour for this recipe. Grate carrots on the small holes of the grater.
Pumpkin Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Pumpkin Carrot Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pumpkin carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin Carrot Cake:
- Take 2 large eggs
- Make ready 1 cup pumpkin puree
- Take 1 cup grated carrot
- Make ready 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- Get 1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil
- Take 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Take 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- Take 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Take 1/2 spoon ground ginger
- Prepare 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- Take 1 cup raisins,
- Take For Frosting:
- Prepare 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
- Prepare half stick unsalted butter, softened
- Prepare 1 confectioners' sugar
- Take 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Get 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
This Pumpkin Carrot Cake is like a pumpkin cake crossed with a carrot cake, and crossed with a hummingbird cake too! Moist, flavorful, full of spice, and slathered in a thick layer of cream cheese frosting! This Pumpkin Carrot Cake is a new fall staple. For more information, read my disclosure policy here.
Steps to make Pumpkin Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350F.To a large bowl, add the eggs, pumpkin, sugars, oil, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, and whisk to combine.Add the carrots,the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and stir until just combined, don't over mix.
- Optionally add the raisins stir to combine. Turn batter out into prepared pan, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula. Bake for about 45 minutes or until center is set and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.Lat the cake cool completely
- Frosting - To a large bowl add the cream cheese, butter, and beat with an electric mixer until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the confectioners' sugar, vanilla, salt, and beat until smooth and incorporated, about 2 minutes.
- Turn frosting out onto cake and spread into a smooth, even, flat layer using a spatula.keep in the fridge for about 1-2 hours.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon. What makes this cake so great? It's tender and moist from pumpkin puree, crushed pineapple, and buttermilk. Pumpkin pie spice adds warm spices that will remind you of a pumpkin pie. The sweetness of the cake gets balanced by the tangy cream cheese frosting.
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