Recipe: Yummy Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. 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.

Heavy cream whipped into the cream cheese frosting makes it extra fluffy. This carrot cake is queen of all carrot cakes. Perfectly moist single layer applesauce carrot cake topped off with classic silky cream cheese frosting! You can cook 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

1. It's of Cake:.
2. Prepare 2 cups of AP flour.
3. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
4. Prepare 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. It's 4 of eggs.
9. Prepare 1 package of matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated).
10. You need 8 oz of can crushed pineapple.
11. It's 1 cup of chopped walnuts.
12. You need 2 tsp of vanilla.
13. It's of Frosting:.
14. You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
15. Prepare 1 of \2 cup softened butter.
16. It's 1 cup of confectioner sugar.
17. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.

The only dessert you'll need for Easter weekend, or any spring occasion. In a bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. In a small bowl, whisk the oil, buttermilk and vanilla. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the eggs and sugar.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting step by step

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.

Carrot cake just isn't carrot cake without the pairing of cream cheese frosting. This cream cheese frosting recipe is fool-proof, light and creamy, and compliments the cake flavors perfectly. Sometimes carrot cake can be dense and dull, but this carrot cake recipe makes the most moist, light and flavorful carrot cake, EVER. The tangy cream cheese frosting is a perfect compliment! THE CAKE: This carrot cake recipe is based on these Mini Brown Sugar Pound Cakes I shared back in December.