Best Carrot Cake. Lots of carrots make this the best carrot cake. I like to hand grate my carrots since I prefer the texture, but you can use your food processor or buy pre-grated carrots from the store. Truly our best-ever carrot cake recipe, make this classic favorite for a crowd and you might not have any leftovers to bring home.
Keyword: carrot cake, classic carrot cake, moist cake, the best carrot cake. Stir in carrots and nuts (if using) until ingredients are well-combined. Evenly divide carrot cake batter into prepared. You can have Best Carrot Cake using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Best Carrot Cake
- Prepare 4 of Eggs.
- Prepare 2 cup of All-purpose flour.
- It's 2 cup of Sugar.
- It's 2 tsp of Baking soda.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Salt.
- You need 1 1/2 of Ground nutmeg.
- You need 1 tbsp of Cinnamon.
- Prepare 1 cup of Oil.
- It's 1/2 cup of Freshly ground pecans (optional).
- It's of cream cheese frosting.
- You need 8 oz of Cream cheese.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of Butter.
- You need 2 tbsp of Vanilla.
- It's 6 cup of Iceing sugar.
This change works out well for me, because carrot cake is Jack's all-time favorite dessert, and we make it every year for his April birthday. You'll find our go-to carrot cake recipe below. We understand that there's no short supply of carrot cake recipes in the universe, but ours is—quite simply—the best. It comes from our Deputy Editor's great-grandma and there's just no arguing with that.
Best Carrot Cake step by step
- Allow eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile greas two 8*1-1/2 inch cake pans, line pans with baking paper and greas with oil. Set aside..
- Preaheat ove to 350°F (175 C). In a large bowl stir together the dry ingredient's. Set that a side. In another bowl stir together oil,carrots(I used 4 cups), eggs then add that to the flour mixture pour batter into prepared pans and bake 30-45 minutes or until a bamboo stick, inserted in the center comes out clean..
- When baked let cool completlie and frost with cream cheese frosting.
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