Recipe of Award-winning Carrot Cake

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:

1. Get 2 cups flour
2. Prepare 3 cups shredded carrots
3. Take 2 tsp baking powder
4. Take 2 tsp baking soda
5. Get 4 large eggs
6. Get 2 tsp ground cinnamon
7. Make ready 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
8. Make ready 1 1/2 cup white sugar
9. Take 1/2 cup brown sugar
10. Take 1 cup chopped pecan + 1/2 cup for garnishing
11. Prepare 2 tsp vanilla
12. Take 1 tsp ground nutmeg
13. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
14. Make ready For Frosting
15. Make ready 8 oz cream cheese
16. Take 4 cups powdered sugar
17. Take 1/2 cup butter
18. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla

Steps to make Carrot Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl break n whisk eggs, sugar oil and vanilla.
2. Then stir in flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder, salt, baking powder, nutmeg. Then fold in shredded carrots and pecans
3. Grease and flour 9 inch baking pan.(I used 2 round ones)
4. 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
5. For frosting: In a bowl add powdered(confectionery) sugar, vanilla, soft cream cheese and butter and mix until creamed.
6. 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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