Recipe: Tasty Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. 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!

Which isn't much different from any other time I eat carrot cake, but this time it's a. Fluffy cream cheese frosting makes the ultimate topper for an ultramoist, classic carrot cake. My husband who is a huge fan of the Magnolia carrot cake loved this one and said it was the best carrot cake he had. You can cook Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

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

There's a reason I've called this the The Ultimate Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting: it's extra moist and tender and flavored with the perfect blend of spices. It's then topped with a smooth and creamy whipped cream cheese frosting. We love our extra creamy cream cheese frosting. It's soft and creamy and doesn't firm up like some cake frostings.

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.

How do you store the carrot cake? Technically, because there is a cream cheese frosting on the cake, it should be kept in the fridge, but most bakers (even. Carrot Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting. I like to grate the carrots by hand — actually, that's a lie, I don't enjoy it one bit — because I want Those look totally lovely! And my favorite part of carrot cake really is the cream cheese frosting.

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