Recipe: Perfect Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake. A moist carrot cake made with both baby food carrots and grated carrots, plus chopped pecans and coconut, baked in a Bundt pan. Decorate with cream cheese frosting and chopped pecans, if desired. In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs.

Add the eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined. 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. You can have Carrot Cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

1. It's 2 cups of flour.
2. Prepare 3 cups of shredded carrots.
3. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
4. You need 2 tsp of baking soda.
5. Prepare 4 of large eggs.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
7. Prepare 1 1/4 cups of vegetable oil.
8. It's 1 1/2 cup of white sugar.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
10. You need 1 cup of chopped pecan + 1/2 cup for garnishing.
11. It's 2 tsp of vanilla.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of ground nutmeg.
13. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
14. You need of For Frosting.
15. You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
16. Prepare 4 cups of powdered sugar.
17. You need 1/2 cup of butter.
18. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.

Especially when it comes to this carrot cake recipe. I know it can be a bold statement to call a recipe the best, but I truly mean it with this one. While some recipe historians trace the roots of carrot cake back to medieval times, we disagree. We know exactly where the best carrot cakes come from - the oven of a Southerner's kitchen.

Carrot Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl break n whisk eggs, sugar oil and vanilla..
2. Then stir in flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder, salt, baking powder, nutmeg. Then fold in shredded carrots and pecans.
3. Grease and flour 9 inch baking pan.(I used 2 round ones).
4. Add the batter to the baking pan and place in the oven to bake for 40 to 50 mins. When finish baking put to cool for abt 1hr.
5. For frosting: In a bowl add powdered(confectionery) sugar, vanilla, soft cream cheese and butter and mix until creamed..
6. Once cake is cool remove from baking pan and place on a cake rack. Spread frosting to the top and then topped with pecans. (Nb because I made 2 cakes I shave the top of one of the cake to be flat enough then I spread frosting then I place the second cake on top then spread frosting again n all over the cakes). Hope you enjoy!!!.

Moist, flavorful, and covered in creamy frosting, carrot cake is a perfectly delightful dessert that satisfies a certain craving in a way unlike any other classic Southern cake. What Ingredients Make The Perfect Carrot Cake? Carrot Cake is such a classic, especially this time of year with Easter approaching. Many have strong opinions about what makes the perfect carrot cake, but there's no doubt that it should be moist, simple to make and full of carrots. Carrot Cake has always been a favorite of mine…BUT I am a little picky.