Recipe: 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 have Carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Carrot cake

1. Prepare 2 cups of flour.
2. Prepare 3 cups of peeled and grated carrots.
3. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of vegetable oil (I used coconut).
4. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
5. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
6. It's 1 1/4 tsp of cinnamon.
7. Prepare 1 cup of granulated sugar.
8. It's 1 cup of brown sugar.
9. It's 3 of eggs.
10. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
11. You need of Optional 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts (you add your fav).
12. Prepare of Optional 1/2 cup raisins.
13. It's of No frosting this time.

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. Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease a baking tin and flour it abit..
2. In bowl, whisk flour, baking powder & soda, cinnamon and salt..
3. In another bowl, whisk the oil, both sugars, vanilla once combined start mixing in the eggs one by one. Once it's well mixed, incorporate the dry ingredients in 3 parts with a wooden spoon..
4. Once the batter is smooth fold in your Carrots. I opted not to use nuts..
5. Place the batter into the baking tin and bake for 50mins-1hr or until springy to the touch and a toothpick at the centre comes out clean..

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.