Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Find Out How To Make Delicious Frosting. This is a tall, moist carrot cake, light in texture and lightly spiced with cinnamon and touch of nutmeg. Heavy cream whipped into the cream cheese frosting makes it extra fluffy.
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Take Cake:
- Prepare 2 cups AP flour
- Get 2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 cup melted butter
- Take 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Get 1 package matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated)
- Make ready 8 oz can crushed pineapple
- Make ready 1 cup chopped walnuts
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla
- Make ready Frosting:
- Prepare 8 oz cream cheese
- Prepare 1 \2 cup softened butter
- Make ready 1 cup confectioner sugar
- Take 2 tsp vanilla
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. 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.
Steps to make Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting:
- Preheat oven 350°
- Sift together dry ingredients
- Blend in oil, sugar and eggs
- Beat until well blended
- Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla
- Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan
- Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean
- Cool completely before removing from pan
- Frosting:
- Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended
- Add vanilla and mix thoroughly
- Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently
- If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt
- Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts
The fluffy buttery frosting is scrumptious with chopped walnuts stirred in. One piece of this homemade carrot cake is never enough—better than all the other carrot cakes recipes I've tried!—Kim Orr, West Grove, Pennsylvania Preparation. Carrot cake just isn't carrot cake without the pairing of cream cheese frosting. This cream cheese frosting recipe is fool-proof, light and creamy, and compliments the cake flavors perfectly. Sometimes carrot cake can be dense and dull, but this carrot cake recipe makes the most moist, light and flavorful carrot cake, EVER.
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