CARROT CAKE
Carrot cake has to be one of my favorite cake to eat and make…I just don’t make it as often because I would EAT the WHOLE cake all by myself. Usually during Easter Holiday is when I make it. Or when I have a lot of carrot left over and need to use them up LOL. Carrot cake has to be one of the easiest cake to make…the only downfall is that it takes a lot of ingredients.
INGREDIENTS:
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup of apple sauce
1 cup of white sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
3 teaspoons of vanilla extract
2 cups of all purpose flour
2 teaspoons of baking soda
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon of nutmeg
3 cups of grated carrots
2 cups of chopped pecans (split portion)
1 stick of butter (room temp)
Frosting:
1 8oz cream cheese
3 cups of powdered sugar
1 stick of butter (room temp)
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
DIRECTION:
Preheat oven to 350
Grease a baking pan (I used 2—8inch round pan)
Large bowl, beat eggs, oil, sugar (white and brown), vanilla extract, apple sauce, and butter. Once that is nicely incorporated. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir in carrots and fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350 for 40-50 mins..or until the toothpick comes out clean.
Let cake cool completely before you frost.
For frosting…. combine all the ingredients together and mix until creamy. You can adjust according to taste….if you don’t like it to sweet..don’t add all the powdered sugar. The frosting is pretty sweet so use a little at a time when putting on cake. I used some pecan to decorate the cake. ENJOY!!!!
