Five Star Carrot Cake
This is, past times far, the best carrot cake ever!! It is sweet, moist, flavorful as well as it stays fresh tasting for days. It is amount of sweetness carrots, raisins as well as pineapple as well as it is absolutely first-class for a crowd, it also freezes well!!!
Directions below are for a 10" layer cake OR 36 cupcakes.
I similar to brand cupcakes because nosotros are "empty nesters" as well as I tin merely accept a few at a fourth dimension out of the freezer, rather than a whole layer cake.
Sorry near the bad photo........I was inwards a hurry (as always).
FIVE STAR CARROT CAKE
4 cups grated carrots
1 loving cup brownish sugar
1 loving cup raisins
1 loving cup crushed pineapple (squeezed dry)
4 eggs
1 loving cup vegetable oil
1½ cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups flour
1½ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 loving cup chopped pecans
If y'all are making a layer cake, lightly spray 2 10" baking pans amongst vegetable spray, as well as draw of piece of work the bottom amongst parchment paper, as well as therefore spray again. See banking concern annotation near baking pans at the cease of this recipe.
If y'all are making cupcakes, it takes 36 cupcake papers. Preheat your oven to 350.
Mix shredded carrots as well as brownish carbohydrate as well as laid upward aside at room temperature for 1 hour. After 1 hour, stir inwards the raisins as well as laid upward aside. The carbohydrate volition depict a lot of liquid out of the carrots as well as it volition all await soupy.........ignore that as well as DO NOT DRAIN!!!
Beat eggs until they are lite colored as well as foamy (about a infinitesimal or therefore at high speed), gradually musical rhythm out inwards the white sugar, vegetable stone oil as well as vanilla. Stir inwards pineapple.
In some other bowl, mix flour, baking soda, tabular array salt as well as cinnamon...mix well. Add this dry out mixture to the moisture mixture, near 1/2 loving cup at a time, making certain everything is moistened earlier y'all add together to a greater extent than flour.
Stir inwards the carrot-raisin mixture equally good equally the nuts.
Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes if y'all are baking 2 10” layers. Test for doneness past times inserting a dry out toothpick into the middle of the baked cake. If it comes out build clean when y'all accept the toothpick out, the cake is done.
If y'all are making cupcakes, bake at 350° for 21-23 minutes. My criterion electrical oven takes 22 minutes. Cool completely as well as frost amongst cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
(1) 8 ounce cream cheese (room temperature)
1/4 loving cup UNsalted butter (room temperature)
1½ teaspoons vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
Beat room temperature cream cheese as well as room temperature Unsalted butter until it is sooth as well as creamy. Add powdered carbohydrate (1 loving cup at a time) along amongst the vanilla. If the frosting seems thick, add together a tablespoon or therefore of milk as well as musical rhythm out again.
Directions below are for a 10" layer cake OR 36 cupcakes.
I similar to brand cupcakes because nosotros are "empty nesters" as well as I tin merely accept a few at a fourth dimension out of the freezer, rather than a whole layer cake.
Sorry near the bad photo........I was inwards a hurry (as always).
FIVE STAR CARROT CAKE
4 cups grated carrots
1 loving cup brownish sugar
1 loving cup raisins
1 loving cup crushed pineapple (squeezed dry)
4 eggs
1 loving cup vegetable oil
1½ cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups flour
1½ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 loving cup chopped pecans
If y'all are making a layer cake, lightly spray 2 10" baking pans amongst vegetable spray, as well as draw of piece of work the bottom amongst parchment paper, as well as therefore spray again. See banking concern annotation near baking pans at the cease of this recipe.
If y'all are making cupcakes, it takes 36 cupcake papers. Preheat your oven to 350.
Mix shredded carrots as well as brownish carbohydrate as well as laid upward aside at room temperature for 1 hour. After 1 hour, stir inwards the raisins as well as laid upward aside. The carbohydrate volition depict a lot of liquid out of the carrots as well as it volition all await soupy.........ignore that as well as DO NOT DRAIN!!!
Beat eggs until they are lite colored as well as foamy (about a infinitesimal or therefore at high speed), gradually musical rhythm out inwards the white sugar, vegetable stone oil as well as vanilla. Stir inwards pineapple.
In some other bowl, mix flour, baking soda, tabular array salt as well as cinnamon...mix well. Add this dry out mixture to the moisture mixture, near 1/2 loving cup at a time, making certain everything is moistened earlier y'all add together to a greater extent than flour.
Stir inwards the carrot-raisin mixture equally good equally the nuts.
Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes if y'all are baking 2 10” layers. Test for doneness past times inserting a dry out toothpick into the middle of the baked cake. If it comes out build clean when y'all accept the toothpick out, the cake is done.
If y'all are making cupcakes, bake at 350° for 21-23 minutes. My criterion electrical oven takes 22 minutes. Cool completely as well as frost amongst cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
(1) 8 ounce cream cheese (room temperature)
1/4 loving cup UNsalted butter (room temperature)
1½ teaspoons vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
Beat room temperature cream cheese as well as room temperature Unsalted butter until it is sooth as well as creamy. Add powdered carbohydrate (1 loving cup at a time) along amongst the vanilla. If the frosting seems thick, add together a tablespoon or therefore of milk as well as musical rhythm out again.
ENJOY !!!
Note near Cake Pans: I ALWAYS bake amongst lite colored aluminum pans. If y'all receive got night pans (or drinking glass pans), y'all receive got to cut down your oven temperature past times 25 degrees...because if y'all don't, the cake tin burn. I've never had that work when I produce amongst lite colored aluminum pans.
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