This Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting is absolutely delicious. This double layer cake has raisins and nuts and lots of cream cheese frosting will be a hit for sure. Whether you are making it for a family dinner or neighborhood pot luck, it is sure to be a winner.
Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
I was happy to try making this carrot cake from scratch. Usually, I take the easy way out and use a cake mix as in Easter Bunny Butt Cake and Cherry Poke Cake. Although this from scratch recipe was fairly easy, I will still probably continue to use mixes for most of my cake recipes.
This Easter is going to be so odd with all that is going on with the corona pandemic and the shelter in place. My kids and grandkids won't be able to come for dinner and dessert as they normally do. However, once this social distancing stuff is over, it is my plan to celebrate big time.
How to Make Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting :
INGREDIENTS NEEDED :
- All-Purpose Flour
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Ginger
- Salt
- Vegetable Oil
- Eggs
- Brown Sugar
- Granulated Sugar
- Unsweetened Applesauce
- Vanilla Extract
- Carrots
- Raisins
- Walnuts
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING :
- Cream Cheese
- Unsalted Butter
- Powdered Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- Cream or Milk
INSTRUCTIONS :
- Pre-Heat Oven
- Whisk together in a mixing bowl flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt when well combined -set aside
- In a separate large bowl, whisk together vegetable oil, eggs, brown sugar, granulated sugar, applesauce, vanilla extract, raisins, and walnuts
- Blend wet ingredients into dry ingredients -mix- do not over blend
- Pour batter into the well-greased and floured round cake pans
- Bake and cool on a cooling rack
Making the Frosting
- In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment or in a large bowl and a hand mixer beat cream cheese until smooth.
- Next, add the butter and mix for 1 minute or until smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar
- Next, add vanilla and cream
- Assemble cake
Dry Cake Ingredients
Wet Cake Ingredients
Out of the Oven
Putting the Cake Together
Frosting the Cake
Putting the Nuts On
Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Equipment
- OVEN
- Electric Mixer
- Mixing Bowl, serving bowl , spatula
Ingredients
- 2 cups all -purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp salt
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs
- 1.5 cups brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups grated carrots
- ¾ cup walnuts (or pecans) chopped
- ¾ cup raisins
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 8 oz block cream cheese softened
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp cream or milk
Instructions
Cake
- Pre-Heat Oven to 350° Spray pans with food release and flour Whisk together in a mixing bowl flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt when well combined -set aside
- In a separate large bowl, whisk together vegetable oil, eggs, brown sugar, granulated sugar, applesauce, vanilla extract, raisins, and walnuts
- Blend wet ingredients into dry ingredients -mix- do not over blend
- Pour batter into the well-greased and floured round cake pans
- Bake and cool on a cooling rack
Making the Frosting
- In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment or in a large bowl and a hand mixer beat cream cheese until smooth.
- Next, add the butter and mix for 1 minute or until smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar
- Next, add vanilla and cream
- Assemble cake
- Frost cake and add optional nuts on sides (tilt cake slightly with a pan under to catch falling nuts)
- I used candy carrots for the top of the cake, but if you are more talented than I, you could make out of frosting
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