Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. For frosting, in another large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Pipe twelve carrots on top of cake, so each slice will have a carrot. The BEST Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting.
Fluffy cream cheese frosting makes the ultimate topper for an ultramoist, classic carrot cake. For the frosting, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Frosting the top and sides of the cakes and use your spatula to create swirls in the frosting. You can cook Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting
- You need of Cake:.
- You need 2 cups of AP flour.
- It’s 2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 cup of melted butter.
- Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
- You need 4 of eggs.
- It’s 1 package of matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated).
- Prepare 8 oz of can crushed pineapple.
- It’s 1 cup of chopped walnuts.
- It’s 2 tsp of vanilla.
- Prepare of Frosting:.
- You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
- It’s 1 of \2 cup softened butter.
- It’s 1 cup of confectioner sugar.
- You need 2 tsp of vanilla.
Sprinkle a few walnut pieces on the top of the cake as garnish, or press the walnut pieces onto the sides of the cake. For the frosting, blend the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla until smooth. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar until smooth. I love cream cheese frosting and carrot cake was always my favorite cake for my birthdays growing up!
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting step by step
- Preheat oven 350°.
- Sift together dry ingredients.
- Blend in oil, sugar and eggs.
- Beat until well blended.
- Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla.
- Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan.
- Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.
- Cool completely before removing from pan.
- Frosting:.
- Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended.
- Add vanilla and mix thoroughly.
- Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently.
- If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt.
- Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts.
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