The Best Carrot Cake
Get ready for the best carrot cake 🥕🍰 you've ever tasted! Follow this classic and simple recipe to whip up a mouthwatering delight. No fancy ingredients or complicated steps, just an easy recipe to create a dessert that will have your family and friends asking for seconds. Let's bake a classic today!
Ingredients
- 2 cups (400g) sugar
- 1¼ cups oil
- 4 large eggs
- 1 lb baby carrots, finely grated
- 2 cups (300g) all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1½ tsp salt
- 2½ tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- preheat oven to 325°, line the bottom of two 9" cake pans with parchment paper, spray with a non stick cooking spray and set aside
- combine sugar, oil and eggs with a whisk
- using a food processor grate your carrots fine (you can do by hand but a food processor makes all the difference here), then add to sugar, oil and eggs
- sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, then add and blend completely
- pour evenly into two prepared cake pans and bake 45-50 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean in center and sides start to pull away from the pan.
- let cool for 10 minutes
- invert cake layers onto a piece of wax paper, remove parchment paper, then place hot pans over the cake layers to seal in the steam as they cool
- cool completely, at least 2 hours
- ice with cream cheese frosting and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition facts are for the cake alone, does not include calories from frosting.
Nutrition
Calories: 450kcal
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