Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
Make ready 2 cups flour
Take 3 cups shredded carrots
Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
Make ready 2 tsp baking soda
Prepare 4 large eggs
Get 2 tsp ground cinnamon
Make ready 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
Take 1 1/2 cup white sugar
Get 1/2 cup brown sugar
Make ready 1 cup chopped pecan + 1/2 cup for garnishing
Take 2 tsp vanilla
Make ready 1 tsp ground nutmeg
Take 1/2 tsp salt
Prepare For Frosting
Take 8 oz cream cheese
Prepare 4 cups powdered sugar
Get 1/2 cup butter
Make ready 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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