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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook best carrot cake using 27 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make BEST Carrot Cake:
- Take 1 ~CAKE BATTER~
- Prepare 2 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 2 tsp baking soda
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 3 large eggs
- Get 2 cup sugar
- Prepare 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 3/4 cup buttermilk
- Get 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 2 cup grated carrot
- Take 1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
- Take 1 (3 1/2-ounce) can flaked coconut
- Prepare 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (I used a 1/2 cup of each) Also have about a 1 cup of nuts to decorate over cake
- Make ready 1 ~BUTTERMILK GLAZE~
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1/2 cup buttermilk
- Prepare 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- Take 1 tbsp light corn syrup
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 ~CREAM CHEESE FROSTING~
- Make ready 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- Prepare 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- Take 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- Get 3 cup sifted powdered sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Carrot cake is a classic and one of our best loved cakes - up there with lemon drizzle cake and Victoria sponge. This recipe is a traditional carrot cake, topped with a cream cheese frosting. This is the best carrot cake recipe I've ever used. For the carrots, we prefer to hand grate for the finest carrot pieces that melt into the cake batter, but you can also use a food processor.
Instructions to make BEST Carrot Cake:
- ☆CAKE☆
- Line 3 (9-inch) round cakepans with wax paper or parchment paper; lightly grease and flour paper. Set pans aside.
- Stir together first 4 ingredients.
- Beat eggs and next 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Add flour mixture, beating at low speed until blended. Fold in carrot and next 3 ingredients. Pour batter into prepared cakepans.
- Bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Drizzle Buttermilk Glaze evenly over layers; cool in pans on wire racks 15 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.
- ●BUTTERMILK GLAZE●
- ●Bring first 5 ingredients to a boil in large saucepan over medium - high heat. Boil, stirring often, 4 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla.●
- ●CREAM CHEESE FROSTING●
- ●Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add sifted powdered sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth.●
- For your finishing touches; you can chop 1 cup of a mixture of pecan and walnut pieces and sprinkle atop and on the sides of the cake.
This is the best carrot cake recipe I've ever used. For the carrots, we prefer to hand grate for the finest carrot pieces that melt into the cake batter, but you can also use a food processor. It makes quick work of grating carrots, but the pieces will be slightly larger. Some grocery stores sell bags of grated carrots, as well. You can make this with or without the.
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