Recipe: Tasty Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake. I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.

It wasn't until recently that we realized just how much we love carrot cake. This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. You can cook Carrot Cake using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

1. It's 6 cups of grated carrot.
2. You need 1 cup of brown sugar.
3. Prepare 1 cup of coconut.
4. Prepare 4 of eggs.
5. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of white sugar.
6. It's 1 cup of vegetable oil.
7. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
8. You need 16 oz of crushed pineapple (drained).
9. Prepare 3 cups of all purpose flour.
10. It's 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
11. It's 1 tsp of salt.
12. You need 4 tsp of ground cinnamon.
13. It's 1 cup of walnuts (chopped).

Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. The origins of carrot cake are disputed.

Carrot Cake step by step

1. In a medium bowl, combine grated carrots and brown sugar. Set aside for 60 minutes. Then stir in coconut.
2. Preheat oven to 350°.
3. Grease and flour two 10” cake pans.
4. In a large bowl, beat eggs until light. Gradually beat in sugar, oil, and vanilla. Stir in pineapple.
5. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl..
6. Stir dry ingredients into the wet mixture until absorbed.
7. Stir in carrot mixture and walnuts.
8. Pour evenly into the prepared pans and bake for 45-50 minutes.

A wonderfully moist, perfectly spiced carrot cake recipe. This truly is the best carrot cake recipe! It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting. My family's best carrot cake recipe dates back to my great-grandmother! We bake up a few of these carrot cakes for special occasions to make sure there's enough to go around.

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