Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake with cream cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting:
  1. Make ready Cake:
  2. Get 2 cups AP flour
  3. Take 2 tsp baking powder
  4. Take 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  5. Get 1 tsp salt
  6. Make ready 1 cup melted butter
  7. Get 2 cups sugar
  8. Get 4 eggs
  9. Make ready 1 package matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated)
  10. Prepare 8 oz can crushed pineapple
  11. Get 1 cup chopped walnuts
  12. Take 2 tsp vanilla
  13. Take Frosting:
  14. Make ready 8 oz cream cheese
  15. Get 1 \2 cup softened butter
  16. Make ready 1 cup confectioner sugar
  17. Get 2 tsp vanilla

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! The tangy cream cheese frosting is a perfect compliment!

Steps to make Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting:
  1. Preheat oven 350°
  2. Sift together dry ingredients
  3. Blend in oil, sugar and eggs
  4. Beat until well blended
  5. Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla
  6. Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan
  7. Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean
  8. Cool completely before removing from pan
  9. Frosting:
  10. Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended
  11. Add vanilla and mix thoroughly
  12. Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently
  13. If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt
  14. Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts

THE CAKE: This carrot cake recipe is based on these Mini Brown Sugar Pound Cakes I shared back in December. When I tried the dark brown sugar version, I knew instantly that it would be delicious as a base for carrot cake! I just added some grated carrots, crushed pineapple, nuts, and spices. The best, classic, spiced soft, moist, quick and easy carrot cake recipe, homemade from scratch with simple ingredients. After countless trial and errors, I have the perfect Easter cake to share with all of you.

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