Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This straightforward recipe delivers moist, dense, and delicious carrot cake with pineapple under a cream cheese frosting. A pleasingly moist cake, this treat is the one I requested that my mom make each year for my birthday. It's dotted with sweet carrots and a hint of cinnamon.
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake with cream cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting:
- Make ready Cake:
- Take 2 cups AP flour
- Get 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 cup melted butter
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 package matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated)
- Prepare 8 oz can crushed pineapple
- Take 1 cup chopped walnuts
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla
- Prepare Frosting:
- Get 8 oz cream cheese
- Get 1 \2 cup softened butter
- Take 1 cup confectioner sugar
- Take 2 tsp vanilla
The tangy cream cheese frosting is a perfect compliment! THE CAKE: This carrot cake recipe is based on these Mini Brown Sugar Pound Cakes I shared back in December. When I tried the dark brown sugar version, I knew instantly that it would be delicious as a base for carrot cake! I just added some grated carrots, crushed pineapple, nuts, and spices.
Steps to make Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting:
- Preheat oven 350°
- Sift together dry ingredients
- Blend in oil, sugar and eggs
- Beat until well blended
- Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla
- Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan
- Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean
- Cool completely before removing from pan
- Frosting:
- Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended
- Add vanilla and mix thoroughly
- Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently
- If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt
- Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts
This carrot cake recipe is one you will fall in love with time and time again! The perfect balance of flavour with a hint of cinnamon, soft crunch from nuts, crushed pineapple and an incredibly moist crumb smothered all over with a silky smooth cream cheese frosting. The perfect texture, the best flavour, easy and foolproof Carrot Cake! Carrot cake just isn't carrot cake without the pairing of cream cheese frosting. This cream cheese frosting recipe is fool-proof, light and creamy, and compliments the cake flavors perfectly.
So that’s going to wrap it up with this special food carrot cake with cream cheese frosting recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
