BEST Carrot Cake

angela.walston
angela.walston @cook_3068921

Recipe from Southern Living.

BEST Carrot Cake

Recipe from Southern Living.

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Ingredients

2 hours
12 servings
  1. 1~CAKE BATTER~
  2. 2 cupall-purpose flour
  3. 2 tspbaking soda
  4. 1/2 tspsalt
  5. 2 tspground cinnamon
  6. 3 largeeggs
  7. 2 cupsugar
  8. 3/4 cupvegetable oil
  9. 3/4 cupbuttermilk
  10. 2 tspvanilla extract
  11. 2 cupgrated carrot
  12. 1(8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
  13. 1(3 1/2-ounce) can flaked coconut
  14. 1 cupchopped pecans or walnuts (I used a 1/2 cup of each) Also have about a 1 cup of nuts to decorate over cake
  15. 1~BUTTERMILK GLAZE~
  16. 1 cupsugar
  17. 1 1/2 tspbaking soda
  18. 1/2 cupbuttermilk
  19. 1/2 cupbutter or margarine
  20. 1 tbsplight corn syrup
  21. 1 tspvanilla extract
  22. 1~CREAM CHEESE FROSTING~
  23. 3/4 cupbutter or margarine, softened
  24. 1(8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  25. 1(3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  26. 3 cupsifted powdered sugar
  27. 1 1/2 tspvanilla extract

Cooking Instructions

2 hours
  1. 1

    ☆CAKE☆

  2. 2

    Line 3 (9-inch) round cakepans with wax paper or parchment paper; lightly grease and flour paper. Set pans aside.

  3. 3

    Stir together first 4 ingredients.

  4. 4

    Beat eggs and next 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Add flour mixture, beating at low speed until blended. Fold in carrot and next 3 ingredients. Pour batter into prepared cakepans.

  5. 5

    Bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Drizzle Buttermilk Glaze evenly over layers; cool in pans on wire racks 15 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.

  6. 6

    ●BUTTERMILK GLAZE●

  7. 7

    ●Bring first 5 ingredients to a boil in large saucepan over medium - high heat. Boil, stirring often, 4 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla.●

  8. 8

    ●CREAM CHEESE FROSTING●

  9. 9

    ●Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add sifted powdered sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth.●

  10. 10

    For your finishing touches; you can chop 1 cup of a mixture of pecan and walnut pieces and sprinkle atop and on the sides of the cake.

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marriedtoakitchen
marriedtoakitchen @cook_3598831
This is the cake I have been making for my customers love it I found it online a few yrs ago Love love love it!!!

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