Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Old Fashioned Carrot Cake

Old Fashioned Carrot Cake.

You can have Old Fashioned Carrot Cake using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Carrot Cake

1. It's 1 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
2. Prepare 2 cup of sugar.
3. Prepare 4 of eggs.
4. You need 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
5. It's 2 tsp of baking soda.
6. It's 1 pinch of of salt.
7. You need 1 1/2 cup of grated carrots.
8. Prepare 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
9. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
10. You need of icing.
11. You need 1/2 cup of butter (room temperature).
12. Prepare 2 of 8 oz blocks of cream cheese (room temperature).
13. Prepare 3 1/2 of to 4 cups powdered sugar.

Old Fashioned Carrot Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Beat oil and sugar, then add eggs. Beat until mixed..
3. Add the rest of the cake ingredients in the order given and beat for 1 minute..
4. Pour cake batter into two greased 9 inch round cake pans..
5. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean..
6. Let cakes cool in pans for 10 minutes, then loosen edges with butter knife and invert cake onto plate or wire rack to finish cooling. Once completely cool, stack one cake on the other and frost..
7. Icing: mix butter and cream cheese together until smooth, then add sugar a little at a time until smooth and desired consistency. Spread on cooled cake..