Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Prepare Carrot Cake:
- Get pecans or walnuts- lightly baked & coarsely chopped
- Take raw carrots (about 2 1/2 cups finely grated)
- Take all-purpose flour
- Get baking soda
- Get baking powder
- Take salt
- Take ground cinnamon
- Get large eggs
- Prepare granulated white sugar
- Take sunflower, vegetable or canola oil (or other flavorless oil)
- Make ready vanilla extract
- Make ready Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Get unsalted butter, room temperature
- Make ready cream cheese, room temperature
- Prepare confectioners (powdered or icing) sugar, sifted
- Get pure vanilla extract
- Take freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Make ready finely grated lemon zest (outer yellow skin) (optional)
Instructions to make Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Butter, or spray cake pan.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon.
- With electric mixer, beat the eggs until frothy (about 1 minute). Add the sugar and vanilla extract and beat, on high speed, until the batter is thick and light colored (about 3 - 4 minutes). With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the oil in a steady stream and then beat until combined. Add the flour mixture and beat just until incorporated. With a rubber spatula fold in the grated carrots and chopped nuts.
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
- Cream Cheese Frosting: With electric mixer, beat the butter until smooth. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla extract and beat until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes). Add the lemon juice and beat until incorporated. Add the soft cream cheese in four to five additions (scraping the bowl as needed), beating until incorporated and the frosting is nice and smooth.
- To Assemble: Once the cake is cool, slice it in the middle. Place one layer of the cake on your serving platter. Spread with about 3/4 cup (150 grams) of the frosting. Gently place the second cake layer onto the frosting and spread the rest of the frosting over the top and sides of the cake. If desired, garnish with toasted nuts. Serve cold or bring to room temperature before serving.
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