Amazingly Delicious Carrot Cake
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Serves: 24
 
Ingredients
  • FOR THE CAKE
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1½ teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • ½ cup chopped nuts
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1½ cups oil
  • 2 cups grated carrots
  • 4 eggsFOR THE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
  • 1 cup butter
  • 2-8oz packages cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 pounds sifted powdered sugar
Preparation Instructions
  1. TO MAKE THE CAKE
  2. Preheat the oven to 350˚. Choose the pan you want to use and butter it and dust it with flour or if making cupcakes, line the cupcake molds with liners.
  3. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
  4. Add the sugar, oil and eggs and mix until smooth.
  5. Add the grated carrots and nuts and stir to combine.
  6. Pour into prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  7. Cool in pan about 20 minutes and then turn out onto a wire wrack to cool completely.TO MAKE THE FROSTING
  8. In a mixer with the whisk attached, combine the butter, cream cheese and vanilla until smooth.
  9. Slowly add the powdered sugar until the frosting is thick and holds it’s shape.
  10. Frost your cake and enjoy!
Recipe by Foods of Our Lives at https://www.foodsofourlives.com/2011/10/amazingly-delicious-carrot-cake/