Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This straightforward recipe delivers moist, dense, and delicious carrot cake with pineapple under a cream cheese frosting. A pleasingly moist cake, this treat is the one I requested that my mom make each year for my birthday. It's dotted with sweet carrots and a hint of cinnamon.
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake with cream cheese frosting using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting:
- Get For cake:
- Prepare 2 cups All Purpose Flour
- Make ready 1.5 cups brown Sugar
- Take 2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt
- Take 2 tsp Cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
- Take 3 cups grated red winter Carrots
- Prepare 1 cup vegetable Oil
- Prepare 4 Eggs
- Take 3/4 cup chopped Walnuts
- Take For frosting
- Make ready 200 gms Cream cheese
- Get 150 gms powdered Sugar
- Prepare 100 gms Butter, softened
The only dessert you'll need for Easter weekend, or any spring occasion. This carrot cake recipe is one you will fall in love with time and time again! The perfect balance of flavour with a hint of cinnamon, soft crunch from nuts, crushed pineapple and an incredibly moist crumb smothered all over with a silky smooth cream cheese frosting. The perfect texture, the best flavour, easy and foolproof Carrot Cake!
Steps to make Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting:
- For cake: Preheat oven to 180°C. In a mixing bowl, cream together oil and sugar.
- Add all the eggs and mix well.
- In another bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients, and then add to wet mixture.
- Use a spatula and stir in the walnuts and carrots gently.
- Pour the cake batter into a greased and floured 9″x13″ cake pan or two 7 inch round cake pans if you want to bake in layers.
- Bake for about 40 to 45 minutes until edges are lightly browned. Use a toothpick and test the middle of the cake.
- Leave in pan and set on cooling rack to cool. Once the cake has cooled completely, ice with cream cheese frosting
- For cream cheese frosting: Beat the cream cheese, sugar and butter together in a bowl until fluffy
- Spread the icing over the top of the cake with a palette knife or spoon. Decorate cake with more chopped walnuts if desired.
A lot of the recipes you find on Liv for Cake are ones where I try to transform a dessert into a cake (like this Tiramisu Cake, or Pecan Pie Cake), or ones with a variety of different flavour combinations and pairings (like my Banana Chocolate Chip Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting). I try to make things that are interesting or unique, but I often have people requesting the staples, so I've. Carrot cake just isn't carrot cake without the pairing of cream cheese frosting. This cream cheese frosting recipe is fool-proof, light and creamy, and compliments the cake flavors perfectly. Sometimes carrot cake can be dense and dull, but this carrot cake recipe makes the most moist, light and flavorful carrot cake, EVER.
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