Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Carrot cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
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!
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Prepare 2 cups flour
- Get 2 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1 cup brown sugar
- Take 1/2 white sugar
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Get 4 large eggs
- Take 4 large peeled and grated carrot
- Get 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- Prepare Frosting
- Take 250 g cream cheese at room temperature
- Prepare 1 cup icing sugar
- Make ready 1/3 cup cream
- Get 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecan nuts for topping
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.
Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees
- Mix all the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, brown sugar, white sugar, in one bowl exclude the carrot and pecan nuts
- In another bowl mix all the wet ingredients.
- Add the wet ingredients - vegetable oil, vanilla essence, eggs, grated carrots, pecans to the dry and mix until it is all absorbed. Then add in the carrot and pecan nuts.
- Grease an oven proof dish, line with spray oil and add parchment paper if you want
- Add mixture into the pan and put in the oven for 50-60 minutes
- Poke the inside of the cake with a tooth pick to see if it is cooked on the inside
- Remove from the oven and let it sit and cool down
- In a bowl use a hand mixer to whip the cream cheese. Slowly add in the icing sugar and cream white continuing to mix
- Frost the cake with the frosting once the cake has cooled down. Add the pecan nuts on top in the end
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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