Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Easy Carrot Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy carrot cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Carrot Cake:

1. Take Carrot Cake
2. Take 83 g all-purpose flour
3. Get 2/3 teaspoons baking soda
4. Get 1/6 teaspoon fine sea salt
5. Get 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
6. Make ready 98 ml canola or other vegetable oil
7. Prepare 66 g granulated sugar
8. Make ready 66 g lightly packed brown sugar
9. Prepare 1/3 teaspoon vanilla extract
10. Take 1 extra large eggs
11. Make ready 100 g grated peeled carrots (1 medium carrot)
12. Prepare 30 g coarsely chopped pecans (optional)
13. Take 20 g raisins (optional)
14. Take Soft Creamy Frosting (not your traditional cream cheese frosting)
15. Take 75 g cream cheese, at room temperature
16. Take 46 g powdered sugar
17. Get 26 ml heavy whipping cream
18. Take 17 g coarsely chopped pecans, for topping

Steps to make Easy Carrot Cake:

1. Heat the oven to 350F (176C). Grease 7 inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment paper then grease the top of the paper.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, salt, and the cinnamon until well blended.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the oil, sugars, and vanilla. Whisk in the egg until combined.
4. Switch to a large rubber spatula. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl then add the dry ingredients in 3 parts, gently stirring until they disappear and the batter is smooth. Stir in the carrots, nuts, and raisins.
5. Pour into cake pan. Bake until the tops of the cake layers are springy when touched and when a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 30t to 40 minutes.
6. Let cool in pan for 15 minutes then turn out onto cooling rack, peel off parchment paper and cool completely. (If it's stuck to the bottom of the pan, leave the cake pan upside down and allow gravity to do its thing).
7. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese with a handheld mixer on medium speed until creamy, about 1 minute.
8. Beat in the powdered sugar, a spoon at a time until fluffy. Pour in cream and beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Chill covered until ready to frost cake.
9. When the cake is completely cool, frost the top leaving the side unfrosted. Scatter nuts on top.
10. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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