Carrot cake
Carrot cake

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. 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 bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. I made this cake with a few modifications and he LOVES it!

Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
  1. Get 2 cups flour
  2. Take 3 cups peeled and grated carrots
  3. Get 1 1/4 cup vegetable oil (I used coconut)
  4. Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
  5. Take 1 tsp baking soda
  6. Take 1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  7. Prepare 1 cup granulated sugar
  8. Get 1 cup brown sugar
  9. Take 3 eggs
  10. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla
  11. Take Optional 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts (you add your fav)
  12. Make ready Optional 1/2 cup raisins
  13. Make ready No frosting this time

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

Steps to make Carrot cake:
  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease a baking tin and flour it abit.
  2. In bowl, whisk flour, baking powder & soda, cinnamon and salt.
  3. In another bowl, whisk the oil, both sugars, vanilla once combined start mixing in the eggs one by one. Once it's well mixed, incorporate the dry ingredients in 3 parts with a wooden spoon.
  4. Once the batter is smooth fold in your Carrots. I opted not to use nuts.
  5. Place the batter into the baking tin and bake for 50mins-1hr or until springy to the touch and a toothpick at the centre comes out clean.

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. While some recipe historians trace the roots of carrot cake back to medieval times, we disagree.

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