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. For the full Carrot Cake Recipe with ingredient amounts and instructions, please visit our recipe page on Inspired Taste. You can have Carrot Cake using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

You need 4 of Eggs.
It's 1 1/4 cup of Vegetable oil.
It's 2 cup of White sugar.
You need 2 tsp of Vanilla extract.
Prepare 2 cup of All-purpose flour.
Prepare 2 tsp of Baking soda.
Prepare 2 tsp of Baking powder.
It's 1/2 tsp of Salt.
You need 2 tsp of Ground cinnamon.
It's 3 cup of Grated carrots.
It's 1 cup of Chopped pecans.
Prepare of cream cheese frosting.
Prepare 1/2 cup of Butter.
You need 8 oz of Cream cheese,softened.
You need 4 cup of Powdered sugar.
It's 1 tsp of Vanilla extract.
Prepare 1 cup of Chopped pecans.

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Carrot Cake instructions

For the carrot cake preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9x13 pan inch pan..
In a large bowl, beat together egg, oil, white sugar, and 2 teaspoon vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour in prepared pans..
Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted to the center of cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely..
To make cream cheese frosting: in a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in the chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake..

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