Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
I finally added a video to my old and trusty recipe for carrot cake, revamped with coconut oil this time. If you want to decorate it with candied carrots, simply slice them thinly and boil for a couple minutes in a syrup made from equal parts sugar and water. Carrot Cake is one of those classic recipes that works so well for any celebration. The bright orange color offset by creamy white frosting makes Carrot Cake the star of any dessert tray.
Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Take 1 cup flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Make ready 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- Get 5/8 cup canola/vegetable oil
- Prepare 1/2 cup maple syrup
- Make ready 1/3 cup lightly packed brown sugar
- Get 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 2 large eggs
- Get 1 1/2 cups grated peeled carrots (5-6 medium carrots)
- Take 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- Make ready 1/4 cup raisins, tossed with 1/2 tbsp flour
- Prepare 1/2 cup crushed pineapple
- Prepare Frosting
- Prepare 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- Make ready 1/4 cup butter, softened
- Get 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 2 cups powdered sugar
Fold dry ingredients into wet mixture and blend well. Stir in carrots, coconut, vanilla, and pineapple. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; gently stir into carrot mixture. Remove from oven, and set aside to cool.
Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a cake pan.
- In a large bowl, beat together sugar, oil, and vanilla until smooth. Add eggs one by one while beating. Mix in flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in carrots, pecans, raisins and pineapple.
- Bake for 48 min for glass bake dish, 40 min for cake pan.
- Make the icing: in a large bowl, beat together butter, cream cheese and vanilla on medium-low speed. Once combined, mix on medium-high speed for 30 seconds, until light and fluffy.
- Add the powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, beating on medium-low speed to incorporate each addition.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; gently stir into carrot mixture. Remove from oven, and set aside to cool. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined. Stir in pineapple, coconut and nuts.
So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food carrot cake recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am sure that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!