Carrot Cake. How to make carrot cake from scratch. This cake is quick and easy to make, versatile and utterly delicious. It wasn't until recently that we realized just how much we love carrot cake.
Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter.
Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting.
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You can have Carrot Cake using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Carrot Cake
- It's 2 cups of all purpose flour - sifted.
- It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
- It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
- It's 1 tsp of cinnamon powder.
- Prepare 1 tsp of nutmeg powder.
- Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
- It's 4 of eggs.
- Prepare 1.5 cups of granulated sugar.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of vegetable oil.
- It's 1 (250 gms) of tin of sliced pineapple.
- You need 3 cups of grated carrots.
- It's of frosting:.
- You need 100 gms of cream cheese.
- Prepare 2 slices of pineapple - crushed.
- Prepare to taste of Powdered sugar.
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Carrot Cake instructions
- Sift flour. Add in cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, baking powder and baking soda..
- Add in grated carrots and toss.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs with sugar, add in the oil and 1 cup of drained pineapple juice..
- Chop pineapple - you need 1 cup. Toss this into the dry mix..
- Pour in egg mixture into dry mix till no lumps. Don’t overmix!.
- For frosting, crush 2-3 pineapple slices. Add in cream cheese and one tablespoon of powdered sugar at a time till you each desired sweetness..
- Let Cake cool to room temp before spreading a thin layer of frosting on top..
- Enjoy!.
- Bake in a pre heated oven at 180 until toothpick comes out clean!.
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