Carrot cake
Carrot cake

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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 have to first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
  1. Get 2 cups flour
  2. Take 2 teaspoon baking powder
  3. Get 1 teaspoon salt
  4. Take 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
  5. Get 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  6. Take 1 cup brown sugar
  7. Get 1/2 white sugar
  8. Take 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  9. Make ready 4 large eggs
  10. Prepare 4 large peeled and grated carrot
  11. Make ready 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
  12. Prepare Frosting
  13. Take 250 g cream cheese at room temperature
  14. Prepare 1 cup icing sugar
  15. Make ready 1/3 cup cream
  16. Make ready 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:
  1. Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees
  2. Mix all the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, brown sugar, white sugar, in one bowl exclude the carrot and pecan nuts
  3. In another bowl mix all the wet ingredients.
  4. 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.
  5. Grease an oven proof dish, line with spray oil and add parchment paper if you want
  6. Add mixture into the pan and put in the oven for 50-60 minutes
  7. Poke the inside of the cake with a tooth pick to see if it is cooked on the inside
  8. Remove from the oven and let it sit and cool down
  9. In a bowl use a hand mixer to whip the cream cheese. Slowly add in the icing sugar and cream white continuing to mix
  10. 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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