Easiest Way to Make Yummy Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake. I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.

It wasn't until recently that we realized just how much we love carrot cake. This Carrot Cake is wonderfully moist, tender and easy to make! It's covered in cream cheese frosting for a perfect, classic cake! You can cook Carrot Cake using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

1. You need 4 of Eggs.
2. It's 1 1/4 cup of Vegetable oil.
3. You need 2 cup of White sugar.
4. Prepare 2 tsp of Vanilla extract.
5. It's 2 cup of All-purpose flour.
6. You need 2 tsp of Baking soda.
7. It's 2 tsp of Baking powder.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.
9. You need 2 tsp of Ground cinnamon.
10. It's 3 cup of Grated carrots.
11. Prepare 1 cup of Chopped pecans.
12. Prepare of cream cheese frosting.
13. You need 1/2 cup of Butter.
14. Prepare 8 oz of Cream cheese,softened.
15. Prepare 4 cup of Powdered sugar.
16. It's 1 tsp of Vanilla extract.
17. You need 1 cup of Chopped pecans.

This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. This truly is the best carrot cake recipe!

Carrot Cake instructions

1. For the carrot cake preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9x13 pan inch pan..
2. In a large bowl, beat together egg, oil, white sugar, and 2 teaspoon vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour in prepared pans..
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted to the center of cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely..
4. To make cream cheese frosting: in a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in the chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake..

It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes The origins of carrot cake are disputed. My family's best carrot cake recipe dates back to my great-grandmother! We bake up a few of these carrot cakes for special occasions to make sure there's enough to go around.