How to Cook Perfect CARROT CAKE

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CARROT CAKE. The BEST Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. This is my favorite recipe for homemade carrot cake! This cake is so easy to make, perfectly moist, and topped with an easy homemade cream cheese frosting.

CARROT CAKE Everyone raved over dessert tonight—this cake is a definite keeper!" - Christina. Carrot Cupcakes & White Chocolate Icing "Cupcakes are FULL of flavor. Received a ton of compliments." - Lady K. You can cook CARROT CAKE using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of CARROT CAKE

  1. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of mashed bananas.
  2. It's 1 1/2 cup of grated carrots.
  3. It's 1/2 cup of chopped nuts (optional).
  4. It's of dry.
  5. You need 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
  6. It's 2 1/4 cup of flour.
  7. Prepare 3 tsp of baking powder.
  8. You need 3 tsp of cinnamon.
  9. You need 1 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate soda.
  10. Prepare of wet.
  11. You need 1 1/2 cup of cooking oil.
  12. Prepare 5 of eggs.
  13. It's of icing.
  14. Prepare 100 grams of softened butter.
  15. Prepare 2 cup of icing sugar.
  16. Prepare 100 ml of cream cheese (plain).
  17. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract (or essence).
  18. It's 1 of carrots, lemon rind or chopped nuts for garnish.
  19. Prepare tsp of vanilla essence.

In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. I like using all-purpose flour, but you can substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat or white whole wheat flour. For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend.

CARROT CAKE step by step

  1. Preheat oven 180°C. Cream eggs and sugar together.
  2. Add oil, carrots, nuts, and bananas.
  3. Add dry ingredients.
  4. Pour into Prepared cake tins 20×20 for square or standard round cake tin. Don't over fill as it rises quite alot. Bake for 30 minutes or until centre is dry when you stick skewer in it.
  5. For the icing...wait for the cake to cool down.
  6. Cream together butter and sugar.
  7. Add cream cheese and mix.
  8. Add vanilla essence and mix.
  9. Grate carrot and lemon rind or nuts to garnish.

Baking soda helps the cake to rise. Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work. According to food historians, carrot cake is probably a variation of the carrot puddings that were popular in Medieval Europe. Since sugar and other sweeteners were precious at that time, enterprising cooks used the naturally sweet root vegetable as delicious substitute sweetener in many versions of a simple carrot cake recipe.