Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Take 2 cups flour
- Prepare 3 cups shredded carrots
- Take 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 4 large eggs
- Prepare 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup white sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Make ready 1 cup chopped pecan + 1/2 cup for garnishing
- Take 2 tsp vanilla
- Get 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Get For Frosting
- Get 8 oz cream cheese
- Make ready 4 cups powdered sugar
- Take 1/2 cup butter
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions to make Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl break n whisk eggs, sugar oil and vanilla.
- Then stir in flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder, salt, baking powder, nutmeg. Then fold in shredded carrots and pecans
- Grease and flour 9 inch baking pan.(I used 2 round ones)
- Add the batter to the baking pan and place in the oven to bake for 40 to 50 mins. When finish baking put to cool for abt 1hr
- For frosting: In a bowl add powdered(confectionery) sugar, vanilla, soft cream cheese and butter and mix until creamed.
- Once cake is cool remove from baking pan and place on a cake rack. Spread frosting to the top and then topped with pecans. (Nb because I made 2 cakes I shave the top of one of the cake to be flat enough then I spread frosting then I place the second cake on top then spread frosting again n all over the cakes). Hope you enjoy!!!
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