Recipe: Delicious Great Grandma's Carrot Cake

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Great Grandma's Carrot Cake. This recipe has been a favorite in our family for three generations. Different from traditional carrot cakes, this cake is extremely moist and flavorful and is topped with a buttermilk glaze while still warm. Try it and I think you will agree that it is the best!!

Great Grandma's Carrot Cake Grandma's Triple Layer Carrot Cake is the ultimate carrot cake recipe. Every piece of this cake is tasty. The carrot cake is fluffy and moist, and the cream cheese frosting is creamy, sweet, and incredibly delicious. You can cook Great Grandma's Carrot Cake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Great Grandma's Carrot Cake

  1. Prepare of Cake.
  2. Prepare of Flour.
  3. It's of Sugar.
  4. It's of Baking soda.
  5. You need of Cinnamon.
  6. You need of Salt.
  7. Prepare of Eggs beaten.
  8. It's of Grated carrots.
  9. You need of Oil.
  10. You need of Icing.
  11. It's of Cream cheese.
  12. It's of Butter.
  13. You need of Powdered sugar.
  14. It's of Chopped walnuts or pecans (optional).

If you are looking for a filling, impressive cake to bring to your next Easter gathering or family dinner, this carrot cake will steal the show. Grandma Catherine's carrot cake recipe has been enjoyed by our family for decades. I spent many wonderful hours with grandma while mom was busy on the farm, and will always remember her kind eyes and loving heart. This carrot cake recipe is nice and moist, never dry.

Great Grandma's Carrot Cake step by step

  1. Set out butter and cream cheese to soften..
  2. Preheat oven to 350..
  3. Mix dry ingredients..
  4. Pour beaten eggs over dry ingredients, do not stir..
  5. Add oil and beat until combined then add carrots and best until throughly distributed..
  6. Pour batter into a greased 9 x 13 pan and bake for 40 - 45 minutes..
  7. Beat cream cheese and butter together until blended then slowly add powdered sugar until all sugar is added and icing is smooth. Add desired amount of nuts..
  8. Ice the cake about 10 - 15 minutes after baking to allow icing to melt and set properly..
  9. Allow cake to cool and serve..

An Old Fashioned Carrot Cake recipe that is tried and true from my Grandma's recipe box. It is super moist carrot cake made from scratch. A little pineapple is added to keep the cake moist and sweet. This is the Carrot Cake recipe you will add to your recipe box! Add cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar into a medium bowl and beat until fluffy using a hand mixer.