Carrot cake
Carrot cake

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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 have carrot cake using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
  1. Get 4 eggs
  2. Prepare 11/4 cups vegetable oil
  3. Take 2 cups white sugar
  4. Prepare 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  5. Take 2 cups all-purpose flour
  6. Take 2 teaspoons baking soda
  7. Prepare 2 teaspoons baking powder
  8. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
  9. Take 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  10. Prepare 3 cups grated carrots
  11. Make ready 1 cup chopped pecans
  12. Get 1/2 cup butter, softened
  13. Prepare 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  14. Make ready 4 cups confectioners' sugar
  15. Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  16. Take 1 cup chopped pecans

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 oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
  2. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
  3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
  4. To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake.

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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