Recipe: Appetizing Granny's Carrot Cake

Granny's Carrot Cake. This recipe has been a favorite in our family for three generations. Different from traditional carrot cakes, this cake is extremely moist and flavorful and is topped with a buttermilk glaze while still warm. Try it and I think you will agree that it is the best!!

It's so good that my son asked me to make it for his grooms cake! Sugar(s) A lot of carrot cake recipes will use fancy brown sugars but I personally prefer to use a mixture of white and brown sugar. The light brown sugar gives the cake a more caramel flavour. You can cook Granny's Carrot Cake using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Granny's Carrot Cake

1. Prepare 2 cup of All purpose flour.
2. Prepare 2 cup of White sugar.
3. Prepare 2 tsp of Baking soda.
4. It's 2 tsp of Ground cinnamon.
5. Prepare 1 cup of Vegetable oil.
6. You need 3 cup of Grated carrots.
7. Prepare 4 of Eggs.
8. It's 1 tsp of Salt.
9. Prepare 8 oz of Cream cheese (room temp).
10. It's 1 stick of Butter.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla extract.
12. It's 1 box of Confectioners sugar.
13. Prepare 1 cup of Chopped pecans.

Add cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar into a medium bowl and beat until fluffy using a hand mixer. Spread frosting on top of each cake layer. Stack the cakes on a serving plate and serve. Beat first four ingredients until well blended.

Granny's Carrot Cake step by step

1. Set oven to bake at 350°F.
2. Mix dry ingredients for cake batter in large bowl.
3. Add vegetable oil and blend by hand.
4. Slowly beat in each egg.
5. Add grated carrots and continue mixingon low speed until thoroughly mixed.
6. Bake in 2 3"x9" cake pans for 30 minutes or until cooked (toothpick comes out clean).
7. For frosting, mix butter and cream cheese, both at room temperature, together.
8. Slowly add in confectioners sugar until all is well mixed in.
9. Mix in vanilla extract and pecans.
10. Once cakes are cooled, frost away!.

Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; gradually beat into sugar mixture. In a mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients. Add eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined. Stir in pineapple, coconut and ½ cup nuts. The wider the diameter the quicker the cake will cook.