Our carrot cake recipe is delicious on its own , but becomes resistless once top with homemade pick tall mallow frosting and a sprinkle of chop up pecans .

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This is the classiccarrot cake recipeyou crave — just baking pantry staples , chopped carrots , and a richcream cheese frost . If you ’d care to change up the classic cinnamon flavor greenback , swop it for pep in the Carrot - Ginger Cake Variation recipe below .

two-layer carrot cake complete with cream cheese frosting and toasted pecans

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Carrot Cake Ingredients

Here ’s a spry look at what you ’ll need to make this recipe for carrot cake .

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How to Make Carrot Cake

The fullrecipe for carrot cakeis below but here ’s a spry look at how to make it .

Tips for Making Carrot Cake

Here are a few of our Test Kitchen ’s best tips for make homemade Daucus carota sativa cake .

How to Store Carrot Cake

After frosting , you could store the Daucus carota sativa bar in the refrigerator up to 3 days . So you may make up to 3 days in advance , or store any leftovers this style .

Ingredients

Carrot Cake

2cupsall - purpose flour

2cupssugar

greased cake pans for making carrot cake

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2tsp.baking powder

1tsp.ground cinnamon(optional )

½tsp.salt

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4largeeggs , elbow room temperature

½tsp.baking soda

3cupsfinely - shredded carrot ( thinly take )

carrots, eggs and oil mixed together in bowl

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¾cupcooking oil

½cupfinely - chopped pecans , toasted ( optional )

pick Cheese Frosting

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1(8 - oz.)packagecream cheese , softened

½cupbutter , soften

2tsp.vanilla

adding carrot cake batter to pans

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5 ½ - 6cuppowdered sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 ° degree Fahrenheit . Lightly grease two 8 - column inch round cake pans ; line pans with waxed paper and grease the Pan . Set by .

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In a great bowl stir together flour , sugar , baking powder , cinnamon ( if want ) , salt , and bake soda ; set aside .

baked carrot cake

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In another bowl combine eggs , carrot , and oil .

Test Kitchen Tip : The carrots demand to be finely shredded by using the fine shredding aerofoil of a box grater , so they appease evenly spread in the cake and wo n’t sink .

Add egg mix to flour concoction . Stir until mix .

cream cheese frosting for carrot cake

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rain cats and dogs hitter into the inclined pans .

Bake in the preheated oven 35 to 40 minute or until a wooden toothpick inserted near midpoint come out uncontaminating . Cool cake stratum in pans on conducting wire racks for 10 minutes . Remove patty layer from pan ; cool down soundly .

Frost with Cream Cheese Frosting . If hope , spatter hack Carya illinoensis over frost . Cover and store cake in the icebox for up to 3 days .

In a large mixture bowl beat cream tall mallow , butter , and vanilla with an galvanizing sociable on medium stop number until light and fluffy . Gradually beat in small-grained dough to get to spreading consistency .

Carrot-Ginger Cake Variation

Prepare as above , except omit the cinnamon ; add 2 tsp . grated bracing ginger or 3/4 tsp . land ginger with the eggs , carrot , and oil .

Frequently Asked Questions

In cosmopolitan , one carrot = 1/2 cup finely shredded carrot . This recipe requires about 6 cultivated carrot .

Eggs will incorporate more aviation into your scorched goods if they are not refrigerator - cold . For refuge , do n’t pass on testicle sitting out for more than two hours . just get them stand on the counter for 30 instant and they ’ll be an appropriate temperature for adding to the recipe .

Nutrition Facts(per serving)

  • The % Daily Value ( DV ) tell you how much a food in a nutrient service contributes to a daily dieting . 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice .