Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:

1. Make ready 1 lb Carrots grated
2. Get 1 cup Sugar
3. Prepare 1 cup Brown sugar
4. Make ready 1 1/2 cup Canola oil
5. Take 2 tbsp Canola oil
6. Get 6 Eggs
7. Take 1 tbsp Vanilla
8. Get 3 1/4 cup Flour
9. Get 1 tbsp Baking soda
10. Make ready 2 tsp Salt
11. Prepare 1 tsp Baking powder
12. Take 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
13. Take 1 pinch Cloves
14. Prepare 1 tbsp Cinnamon
15. Get Frosting
16. Take 3 8 ounce bricks cream cheese at room temperature
17. Make ready 1 cup Butter at room temperature
18. Prepare 1 tbsp Vanilla
19. Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
20. Prepare 6 cup Powdered sugar

Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans.

Instructions to make Carrot Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350 or 300 to bake at a longer time to control raising if doing a layer cake
2. Thoroughly grease and flour three 8 inch or two 9 inch cake pans or use a large rectangular cake pan
3. Grate 1 pound of Carrots and set aside
4. Mix oil sugar and brown sugar until smooth
5. Add eggs one at a time and mix
6. Add vanilla and mix until smooth
7. In a separate bowl whisk all dry ingredients
8. Add dry ingredients to boil sugar mixture at medium until just combined scraping bowl at least once
9. Fold in carrots (nuts raisins and or pineapple optional) at this time by hand
10. Bake 25 to 30 minutes for three 8 inch pans. Adjust cook time for other options. Cool on wire rack's turnout of pans onto plates after leveling with knife and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before frosting. May be chilled until the next day if you wish
11. While your cake is in the oven or when you're ready to frost cream together cream cheese and butter on medium for one minute or until there are no lumps
12. Add vanilla and salt and mix until combined
13. On medium low mix in powdered sugar gradually then on medium-high until combined once all powdered sugar has been added
14. Use water tablespoon at a time too thin or more powdered sugar to thicken your frosting if necessary

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