Recipe: Perfect Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake.

You can have Carrot Cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

  1. You need 1 1/4 cup of vegetable oil.
  2. It’s 2 cup of White sugar.
  3. It’s 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
  4. Prepare 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
  5. You need 2 tsp of baking soda.
  6. Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
  7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
  8. It’s 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
  9. Prepare 3 cup of grated carrots.
  10. Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecans.
  11. Prepare of FROSTING:.
  12. Prepare 1/2 cup of Butter, softened.
  13. You need 8 oz of cream cheese, softened.
  14. It’s 4 cup of Confectioners' sugar.
  15. It’s 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  16. It’s 1 cup of chopped pecans.

Carrot Cake step by step

  1. COOK: 1 hr.
  2. READY: 2 hr.
  3. Preheat oven to 350 ° F. Grease and flour a 9×13-inch pan..
  4. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar, & 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt & cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan..
  5. Bake in preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely..
  6. FROSTING: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar & 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth & creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake..