Recipe: Appetizing Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

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Recipe: Appetizing Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. For the frosting, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Frosting the top and sides of the cakes and use your spatula to create swirls in the frosting. Check out our video for how to make Carrot Cake Cupcakes I love cream cheese frosting and carrot cake was always my favorite cake for my birthdays growing up!

Just because it has a few carrots in it doesn't make it health food!

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.

It's then topped with a smooth and creamy whipped cream cheese frosting.

You can have Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

  1. You need of Cake:.

  2. You need 2 cups of AP flour.

  3. Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.

  4. It’s 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.

  5. It’s 1 tsp of salt.

  6. You need 1 cup of melted butter.

  7. It’s 2 cups of sugar.

  8. Prepare 4 of eggs.

  9. It’s 1 package of matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated).

  10. It’s 8 oz of can crushed pineapple.

  11. Prepare 1 cup of chopped walnuts.

  12. It’s 2 tsp of vanilla.

  13. You need of Frosting:.

  14. You need 8 oz of cream cheese.

  15. It’s 1 of \2 cup softened butter.

  16. You need 1 cup of confectioner sugar.

  17. You need 2 tsp of vanilla.

Because of the cream cheese frosting, I recommend storing these carrot cake cupcakes in the refrigerator.

With mixer running on low speed, slowly add powdered sugar and beat until well blended and smooth*.

Frost cupcakes with cream cheese frosting then immediately roll edges of frosting in.

While the cake cools, make the cream cheese frosting.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting instructions

  1. Preheat oven 350°.

  2. Sift together dry ingredients.

  3. Blend in oil, sugar and eggs.

  4. Beat until well blended.

  5. Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla.

  6. Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan.

  7. Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.

  8. Cool completely before removing from pan.

  9. Frosting:.

  10. Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended.

  11. Add vanilla and mix thoroughly.

  12. Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently.

  13. If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt.

  14. Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts.

Combine the butter, cream cheese and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat Loved the carrot cake, especially the cream cheese frosting.

What modifications would I need to make a zucchini cake?

I am bursting at the seams with.

We love our extra creamy cream cheese frosting.

It's soft and creamy and doesn't firm up like some cake frostings.