Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. For frosting, in another large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Pipe twelve carrots on top of cake, so each slice will have a carrot. There's a reason I've called this the The Ultimate Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting: it's extra moist and tender and flavored with the perfect blend of spices.
Sprinkle a few walnut pieces on the top of the cake as garnish, or press the walnut pieces onto the sides of the cake.
Fluffy cream cheese frosting makes the ultimate topper for an ultramoist, classic carrot cake.
My husband who is a huge fan of the Magnolia carrot cake loved this one and said it was the best carrot cake he had.
You can have Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting
- Prepare of Cake:.
- Prepare 2 cups of AP flour.
- You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- It's 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 1 cup of melted butter.
- It's 2 cups of sugar.
- It's 4 of eggs.
- Prepare 1 package of matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated).
- It's 8 oz of can crushed pineapple.
- Prepare 1 cup of chopped walnuts.
- It's 2 tsp of vanilla.
- Prepare of Frosting:.
- It's 8 oz of cream cheese.
- It's 1 of \2 cup softened butter.
- Prepare 1 cup of confectioner sugar.
- Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
For the frosting, blend the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla until smooth. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar until smooth. I love cream cheese frosting and carrot cake was always my favorite cake for my birthdays growing up! I am definitely going to make these for an upcoming meeting happening at a.
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting step by step
- Preheat oven 350°.
- Sift together dry ingredients.
- Blend in oil, sugar and eggs.
- Beat until well blended.
- Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla.
- Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan.
- Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.
- Cool completely before removing from pan.
- Frosting:.
- Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended.
- Add vanilla and mix thoroughly.
- Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently.
- If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt.
- Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts.
The incredible taste of your favorite carrot cake but in bar form! Carrot Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting. I like to grate the carrots by hand — actually, that's a lie, I don't enjoy it one bit — because I want Those look totally lovely! And my favorite part of carrot cake really is the cream cheese frosting. Whenever I make it there is always extra that ends up.
