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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have best carrot cake using 27 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make BEST Carrot Cake:
- Take 1 ~CAKE BATTER~
- Make ready 2 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 3 large eggs
- Take 2 cup sugar
- Take 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- Take 3/4 cup buttermilk
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 2 cup grated carrot
- Make ready 1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
- Get 1 (3 1/2-ounce) can flaked coconut
- Take 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (I used a 1/2 cup of each) Also have about a 1 cup of nuts to decorate over cake
- Prepare 1 ~BUTTERMILK GLAZE~
- Take 1 cup sugar
- Get 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 cup buttermilk
- Prepare 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- Prepare 1 tbsp light corn syrup
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 ~CREAM CHEESE FROSTING~
- Make ready 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- Take 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- Prepare 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- Get 3 cup sifted powdered sugar
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting. Lots of carrots make this the best carrot cake. I like to hand grate my carrots since I prefer the texture, but you can use your food processor or buy pre-grated carrots from the store. This cake was inspired by a generations-old family recipe — you can't beat that.
Steps to make BEST Carrot Cake:
- ☆CAKE☆
- Line 3 (9-inch) round cakepans with wax paper or parchment paper; lightly grease and flour paper. Set pans aside.
- Stir together first 4 ingredients.
- Beat eggs and next 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Add flour mixture, beating at low speed until blended. Fold in carrot and next 3 ingredients. Pour batter into prepared cakepans.
- Bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Drizzle Buttermilk Glaze evenly over layers; cool in pans on wire racks 15 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.
- ●BUTTERMILK GLAZE●
- ●Bring first 5 ingredients to a boil in large saucepan over medium - high heat. Boil, stirring often, 4 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla.●
- ●CREAM CHEESE FROSTING●
- ●Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add sifted powdered sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth.●
- For your finishing touches; you can chop 1 cup of a mixture of pecan and walnut pieces and sprinkle atop and on the sides of the cake.
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