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Easy Carrot Cake Recipe (VIDEO)
This carrot cake is soft, moist, loaded with carrots and pecans and has tons of flavor. You’ll love the layers of fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting - you will need 1 recipe for Cream Cheese Frosting to frost a 2-layer, 9-inch cake. Carrot cake is a nostalgic and comforting dessert.
👥 16 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 2h 30m⏳ Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 35 min👤 Natasha Kravchuk📖 natashaskitchen
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- ●pan
- ●oven
- ●bowl
- ●mixing bowl
- ●whisk
- ●spatula
📝 Preparation Steps
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How to Make Carrot Cake:
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Prep: Preheat the oven to 350˚F with a rack in the center of the oven. Butter two 9-inch round cake pans, line the bottoms with a ring of parchment paper and lightly butter the parchment. Set aside.
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Dry Ingredients: In a large mixing bowl, add flour, both sugars, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves and salt. Whisk to combine and break up any brown sugar clumps.
baking soda2 tspbaking powder1 tsp
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Wet Ingredients: In a second mixing bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients: oil, eggs, and applesauce just until well combined. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and use a spatula to fold until combined.
large eggs (room temperature)4
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Add-Ins: Use a spatula to fold in the carrot, nuts and raisins if using and fold until well incorporated.
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Bake: Divide the batter evenly between the cake pans and bake in a fully preheated oven for ⏱️ 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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Cool: Let the cake rest in the pans for ⏱️ 15-20 minutes then transfer to a wire rack and cool to room temperature before applying frosting and decorating. Meanwhile, make the Cream Cheese Frosting.
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To Frost The Carrot Cake:
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Set the first cake layer on a cake platter and spread on a generous amount of Cream Cheese frosting (about 1/4 of the batch).
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Set the second layer over the frosting with the top-side-down to create an even frosting surface. Lightly crumb coat the cake with frosting then apply more frosting to the top and sides of the cake.
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Use a piping bag fitted with a large open star tip to pipe puffs of the remaining frosting around the top of the cake and sprinkle remaining pecans around the edges.
pecans (*plus more to garnish, optional)1 cup
Nutrition Facts
calories
345 kcal
fat Content
19 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
2 g
sugar Content
26 g
sodium Content
246 mg
protein Content
4 g
trans Fat Content
0.004 g
cholesterol Content
41 mg
carbohydrate Content
41 g
saturated Fat Content
3 g
unsaturated Fat Content
16 g
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