Recipe: Tasty classic carrot cake

classic carrot cake. Nothing beats a classic carrot cake - this one has a touch of cinnamon and walnuts plus the obligatory cream cheese icing. This cake is a whopper, so make sure you have some hungry bunnies on hand. TESTED & PERFECTED RECIPE - This classic carrot cake is nicely spiced, ultra-moist, and Before I opened, I spent weeks testing recipes for all of the classic cake flavors.

My carrot cake with pineapple earned first place! —Cheri Eby, Gunnison, Colorado. This classic carrot cake is perfectly soft and moist. My Mama in law shared this carrot cake recipe with me and one of her friends shared it with her who inherited the recipe from her mother. You can have classic carrot cake using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of classic carrot cake

1. Prepare 2 cup of flour.
2. You need 1 cup of sugar.
3. It's 1 cup of brown sugar.
4. Prepare 2 tsp of baking soda.
5. It's 2 tsp of cinnamon.
6. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
7. Prepare 4 of eggs.
8. It's 1 cup of vegetable oil.
9. Prepare 2 cup of shredded carrots.
10. Prepare 3/4 cup of chopped walnuts.

How To Make a Classic Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Many carrot cakes are extremely sweet. Most folks say it's because we Americans love our sweets extra sweet. This Classic Carrot Cake recipe uses crushed pineapple to give the cake a rich, moist texture.

classic carrot cake instructions

1. preheat oven to 350°F..
2. drain pineapple reseveing 2 tbsps of the juice. you may discard the rest or save for another use.
3. in a large bowl combine all dry ingredients..
4. add eggs, oil, pineapple, carrots and reserved juice blend with a mixer on med speed until combined..
5. stir in walnuts.
6. transfer to a greased and floured 13x9 baking dish or to 9 inch baking pans bake 35 to 40 minuted.
7. cool on wire racks leave in pan 10 minutes the remove if using the round pans.
8. I top this cake off with cream cheese frosting and then press more chopped walnut on the top..
9. look for my cream cheese frosting recipie!.

This classic carrot cake is moist, fluffy and spiced to perfection. It's topped with a thick cream cheese frosting and toasted pecans. If you're after a classic carrot cake recipe with a cream cheese frosting, then I highly recommend this recipe. Best served with a pot of freshly brewed tea and friends. My lightened Classic Clean-Eating Carrot Cake is much healthier but still just as easy as their doctored box mix version!