Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
However, once iced with cream cheese frosting, they should be stored in the fridge. You can freeze an un-iced carrot cake for up to. I finally added a video to my old and trusty recipe for carrot cake, revamped with coconut oil this time.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Make ready Carrot Cake:
- Prepare 1 cup pecans or walnuts- lightly baked & coarsely chopped
- Prepare 340 g raw carrots (about 2 1/2 cups finely grated)
- Take 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- Make ready 4 large eggs
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar
- Make ready 1 cup sunflower, vegetable or canola oil (or other flavorless oil)
- Take 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Prepare Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Take 1/4 cup (57 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
- Prepare 8 ounces (227 grams) cream cheese, room temperature
- Make ready 2 cups (230 grams) confectioners (powdered or icing) sugar, sifted
- Take 1 teaspoon (4 grams) pure vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 teaspoon (4 grams) freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Prepare 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest (outer yellow skin) (optional)
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; gently stir into carrot mixture. Delight friends with an afternoon tea that includes this easy carrot cake. Whisk the oil, yogurt, eggs, vanilla and zest in a jug. Mix the flour, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg with a good pinch of salt in a bowl.
Instructions to make Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Butter, or spray cake pan.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon.
- With electric mixer, beat the eggs until frothy (about 1 minute). Add the sugar and vanilla extract and beat, on high speed, until the batter is thick and light colored (about 3 - 4 minutes). With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the oil in a steady stream and then beat until combined. Add the flour mixture and beat just until incorporated. With a rubber spatula fold in the grated carrots and chopped nuts.
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
- Cream Cheese Frosting: With electric mixer, beat the butter until smooth. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla extract and beat until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes). Add the lemon juice and beat until incorporated. Add the soft cream cheese in four to five additions (scraping the bowl as needed), beating until incorporated and the frosting is nice and smooth.
- To Assemble: Once the cake is cool, slice it in the middle. Place one layer of the cake on your serving platter. Spread with about 3/4 cup (150 grams) of the frosting. Gently place the second cake layer onto the frosting and spread the rest of the frosting over the top and sides of the cake. If desired, garnish with toasted nuts. Serve cold or bring to room temperature before serving.
Squeeze any lumps of sugar through your fingers, shaking the bowl a few times to bring the lumps to the surface. A fantastic, easy carrot cake that I've made many times and a hit in our house. The reason why people are having two issues - longer bake times than stated and an excess of icing - is because the tin size stated in the recipe is wrong. Thanks for this carrot cake recipe. I have just finished baking a carrot cake using this recipe.
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