Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Heather
Heather @cook_3762630
Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Ingredients

  1. Carrot Cake
  2. 4large eggs
  3. 1 1/4 cupvegetable oil
  4. 1 cupgranulated sugar
  5. 1 cupbrown sugar
  6. 3 tspvanilla
  7. 2 cupflour
  8. 2 tspbaking powder
  9. 2 tspbaking soda
  10. 1/2 tspsalt
  11. 3 tspground cinnamon
  12. 1 tspground nutmeg
  13. 1/2 tspground cloves
  14. 3 1/4 cupcarrots, grated
  15. 1 cupchopped pecans
  16. Cream Cheese Frosting
  17. 1/2 cupunsalted butter, softened
  18. 8 ozcream cheese
  19. 4 cuppowdered sugar
  20. 1 tspvanilla

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350°F.

  2. 2

    Grease and flour a 13×9 inch baking pan and set aside.

  3. 3

    In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, and vanilla. Then blend in sugars until fully incorporated.

  4. 4

    In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

  5. 5

    Gradually add flour mixture to egg mixture until well combined.

  6. 6

    Stir in carrots. Add pecans last.

  7. 7

    Pour into baking pan and bake 40-50 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.

  8. 8

    Let cool in pan for 10-15 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

  9. 9

    To make the frosting, beat butter, cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until smooth and fluffy.

  10. 10

    Frost the cooled carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and enjoy or refrigerate until ready to eat!

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ChefJohn
ChefJohn @Crypto_john
Heather, you know this is by far the best carrot cake recipe ever. Thanks!

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