Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long. This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere.
Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Make ready 2 cups all purpose flour - sifted
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- Prepare 1 tsp nutmeg powder
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Get 1 tsp vanilla
- Get 4 eggs
- Prepare 1.5 cups granulated sugar
- Prepare 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 (250 gms) tin of sliced pineapple
- Get 3 cups grated carrots
- Make ready frosting:
- Make ready 100 gms cream cheese
- Make ready 2 slices pineapple - crushed
- Prepare to taste Powdered sugar
Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added in the mix. This truly is the best carrot cake recipe!
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Sift flour. Add in cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
- Add in grated carrots and toss
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs with sugar, add in the oil and 1 cup of drained pineapple juice.
- Chop pineapple - you need 1 cup. Toss this into the dry mix.
- Pour in egg mixture into dry mix till no lumps. Don’t overmix!
- For frosting, crush 2-3 pineapple slices. Add in cream cheese and one tablespoon of powdered sugar at a time till you each desired sweetness.
- Let Cake cool to room temp before spreading a thin layer of frosting on top.
- Enjoy!
- Bake in a pre heated oven at 180 until toothpick comes out clean!
It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting. Spoon ¼ of the icing on top and spread in an even layer. A wonderfully moist, perfectly spiced carrot cake recipe. This Carrot Cake with pineapple and coconut is a family favorite, made every year for all sorts of celebrations from birthdays to Easter! Originally from the Silver Palate cookbook, we've made several.
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