How to Make Perfect Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. This straightforward recipe delivers moist, dense, and delicious carrot cake with pineapple under a cream cheese frosting. A pleasingly moist cake, this treat is the one I requested that my mom make each year for my birthday. It's dotted with sweet carrots and a hint of cinnamon.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting Heavy cream whipped into the cream cheese frosting makes it extra fluffy. This carrot cake is queen of all carrot cakes. Perfectly moist single layer applesauce carrot cake topped off with classic silky cream cheese frosting! You can have Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

  1. It's of cake.
  2. It's of flour.
  3. Prepare of baking powder.
  4. It's of baking soda.
  5. It's of cinnamon.
  6. Prepare of nutmeg.
  7. Prepare of allspice.
  8. You need of salt.
  9. You need of eggs.
  10. Prepare of sugar.
  11. You need of Light brown sugar.
  12. Prepare of vegetable oil.
  13. It's of plain yogurt.
  14. Prepare of grated carrots.
  15. You need of topping.
  16. Prepare of coarsely chopped pecans.
  17. It's of frosting.
  18. It's of butter.
  19. You need of cream cheese.
  20. It's of powdered sugar.
  21. Prepare of vanilla.

The only dessert you'll need for Easter weekend, or any spring occasion. In a bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. In a small bowl, whisk the oil, buttermilk and vanilla. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the eggs and sugar.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting step by step

  1. In a sml. bowl add all dry ingredients..
  2. In a lg. bowl add moist ingredients..
  3. Add dry ingredients to moist ingredients. Blend together and pour batter into a ungreased 9 X 13 pan..
  4. Bake for 20 min. at 350°. Rotate and bake for 20 more min..
  5. Roast pecans for 10 min..
  6. Let cake cool for 2 hrs. before adding frosting..
  7. Sprinkle chopped pecans over frosting..
  8. .

Carrot cake just isn't carrot cake without the pairing of cream cheese frosting. This cream cheese frosting recipe is fool-proof, light and creamy, and compliments the cake flavors perfectly. Sometimes carrot cake can be dense and dull, but this carrot cake recipe makes the most moist, light and flavorful carrot cake, EVER. The tangy cream cheese frosting is a perfect compliment! THE CAKE: This carrot cake recipe is based on these Mini Brown Sugar Pound Cakes I shared back in December.