How to Prepare Tasty Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: How to Prepare Tasty Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 2 h
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Carrot Cake; 4large eggs; 1 1/4 cupvegetable oil; 1 cupgranulated sugar; 1 cupbrown sugar; 3 tspvanilla; 2 cupflour; 2 tspbaking powder; 2 tspbaking soda; 1/2 tspsalt; 3 tspground cinnamon; 1 tspground nutmeg; 1/2 tspground cloves; 3 1/4 cupcarrots, grated; 1 cupchopped pecans; Cream Cheese Frosting; 1/2 cupunsalted butter, softened; 8 ozcream cheese; 4 cuppowdered sugar; 1 tspvanilla

Minnie Peters

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How to Prepare Tasty Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Gradually add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; blend until smooth. Assemble cake by placing one layer onto plate. Spread with some of the frosting; top with second layer.

Add the powdered sugar and mix until light and fluffy.

To prepare cake, weigh or lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.

Allow to cool completely before frosting.

You can cook Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

It’s of Carrot Cake.
Prepare 4 of large eggs.
Prepare 1 1/4 cup of vegetable oil.
It’s 1 cup of granulated sugar.
It’s 1 cup of brown sugar.
You need 3 tsp of vanilla.
Prepare 2 cup of flour.
Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
It’s 2 tsp of baking soda.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
It’s 3 tsp of ground cinnamon.
You need 1 tsp of ground nutmeg.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground cloves.
Prepare 3 1/4 cup of carrots, grated.
It’s 1 cup of chopped pecans.
Prepare of Cream Cheese Frosting.
It’s 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, softened.
It’s 8 oz of cream cheese.
Prepare 4 cup of powdered sugar.
Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.

Cream Cheese Frosting: Prepare the cream cheese frosting by beating the cream cheese with the mixer until smooth and creamy.

Lightly grease the two sandwich tins and line the bottom with baking paper.

Repeat this until all of the ingredients are thoroughly combined and the frosting is light and creamy.

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Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F..
Grease and flour a 13×9 inch baking pan and set aside..
In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, and vanilla. Then blend in sugars until fully incorporated..
In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves..
Gradually add flour mixture to egg mixture until well combined..
Stir in carrots. Add pecans last..
Pour into baking pan and bake 40-50 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean..
Let cool in pan for 10-15 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely..
To make the frosting, beat butter, cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until smooth and fluffy..
Frost the cooled carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and enjoy or refrigerate until ready to eat!.

Molly Yeh's Carrot Cake with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe.

This straightforward recipe delivers moist, dense, and delicious carrot cake with pineapple under a cream cheese frosting.

A pleasingly moist cake, this treat is the one I requested that my mom make each year for my birthday.

It's dotted with sweet carrots and a hint of cinnamon.

The fluffy buttery frosting is scrumptious with chopped walnuts stirred in.