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 cook Carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Carrot cake
- Prepare 3 of eggs.
- It's 3/4 cup of buttermilk.
- You need 3/4 cup of vegetable oil.
- It's 1 1/2 cup of white sugar.
- It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It's 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
- You need 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
- Prepare 2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 2 cup of shredded carrot.
- You need 1/2 cup of flaked coconut.
- You need 1/2 cup of chopped almond.
- It's 1 cup of raisin.
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Carrot cake instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8x12 inch pan..
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside..
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Add flour mixture and mix well..
- In a medium bowl, combine shredded carrots, coconut, almonds and raisins..
- Using a large wooden spoon or a very heavy whisk, add carrot mixture to batter and fold in well..
- Pour into prepared 8x12 inch pan, and bake at 350°F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour. Check with toothpick..
- Allow to cool for at least 20 minutes before serving..
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