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Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
Not too sweet, too dense, oily or spicy as some carrot cakes can be. The frosting is a tried and true basic cream cheese frosting. Easy to mix and fool proof, this could easily be your go-to carrot cake recipe.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Get 200 gm Brown sugar , light
- Get 180 ml Vegetable oil
- Take 1/4 cup Yogurt
- Get 3 Eggs
- Take 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- Make ready 2 cups All purpose flour (250gm)
- Make ready 1 tsp Baking powder
- Get tsp Baking soda
- Make ready 2 tsps Cinnamon , ground
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Nutmeg , ground
- Get 1/2 tsp Salt
- Get 225 gm Carrot , finely grated cups
- Get 3/4 cup Pecan pieces
- Make ready Cream cheese frosting :-
- Make ready 200 gm Cream cheese , softened to room temperature
- Prepare 3 tbsps Butter , softened to room temperature
- Prepare 300 gm Icing sugar vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp Vanila essence
- Prepare salt as needed
Classic old-fashioned carrots cake often include pineapple. While ours doesn't include any, this recipe works well with it. Then let them cool for a few minutes in the cupcake pan before transferring them to a cooling rack. Moist, flavorful, and covered in creamy frosting, carrot cake is a perfectly delightful dessert that satisfies a certain craving in a way unlike any other classic Southern cake.
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180°, grease and line two round cake pans and set aside.
- Put the oil and sugar into a bowl and beat well. Add the eggs, one at a time and beat them very throughly into the mixture.
- Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt in to the bowl. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until they are just combined. Fold in the pecans, carrots and stir in the vanila essence and regular yogurt.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tins and bake in the centre of the oven for about 35 minutes or until the skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Leave the cake in the tin for 5minutes and then turn out to cool on a wire rack.
- For the frosting, mix the soft cheese, butter and icing sugar together in a bowl. Beat until smooth.
- Sandwitch the cooled cakes with a little of frosting. Spread the remaining frosting over the top of the cake and down the sides, making any pattern of your choice with a knife.
The sweet flavors of cinnamon, cream cheese, and carrots packed into traditional carrot cake recipes can be used in so many delicious desserts. A great thing about making a carrot cake from scratch is that you can control what you decide to put into it. This cake has many options, allowing you to personalize to your tastes. It's written as I like it best, but you can make adjustments as you like. One of the less common things this carrot cake contains is carrot puree.
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