My Favorite Carrot Cake Recipe - One Hundred Dollars a Month (2024)

Ingredients

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For the cake

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 4 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 cups carrots (grated)

For the frosting

• 1 1/2 cups cream cheese (softened)
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter ( softened)
• 5 cups powered sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

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1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees . Butter and flour 2 round 9-inch cake pans and set aside.
2. Sift together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and baking powder and set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, oil and vanilla. Add the flour mixture and stir to combine. Fold in the shredded carrots.
4. Divide the batter between the 2 prepared pans. Bake for about 45- 55 minutes {or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean}. Cool cake pans on wire racks. Remove cake from pans, wrap in Saran wrap, the aluminum foil. Place on a cookie sheet and freeze cake layers over night.

After you cakes have chilled in the deep freeze set them on the counter and proceed to make the frosting.

To make the frosting

Mix the cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a medium-size bowl with a wire whisk until creamy. Slowly add in the powered sugar.

Place a dab of frosting in the center of your cake plate. Add the first layer {you will need to cut both of your 2 cake layers in half to make a total of 4 layers}.

Frost the center of each layer, then the top and sides. Garnish with a foil wrapped chocolate carrot or fresh baby carrots from the garden if you have them.