Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Icing Food

BEST CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• First prepare the cake.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine all cake ingredients (brown sugar, oil, eggs, flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, carrots and pecans) in a large bowl.
• Pour batter into a 13x9 inch cake pan or two 8 inch round cake pans that have been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes (if using 13x9) or until toothpick comes out clean but cake is still moist.
• Allow cake to cool and prepare cream cheese frosting.
• In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, powdered sugar, butter and vanilla.
• Cover cooled cake with frosting, slice and serve.
• You may want to keep it in the fridge if you aren't going to be eating it right away because of the cream cheese in the frosting.

CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• In an electric mixer cream together 1 cup butter, sugar, and cinnamon until smooth and fluffy. Beat in the eggs 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition. Fold in the grated carrot. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix 1/2 of the flour into the butter mixture, then add 1/2 the water, mix well. Mix in the remaining flour and water. Fold in the pineapple.
• Grease 2 (9-inch) cake pans with the remaining butter and dust with the remaining flour.
• Divide the batter evenly between the 2 cake pans. Bake for 35 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes then remove from the pan and cool completely.
• For the icing: Cream together the butter and cream cheese until smooth.Whip in the icing sugar and lemon juice.
• Slice both cooled cakes into 2 layers. Spread the icing in between the layers as you stack them up. Ice the top and sides of the cake to finish.
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CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two 9-inch round cake pans with parchment and lightly coat with cooking spray.
• Spread the pecans on a rimmed baking sheet and toast until light brown and fragrant, 7 minutes. Set aside 12 pecan halves to decorate the finished cake; chop the remaining pecans. Set aside 1 cup of the chopped pecans to use in the batter; reserve the rest for decorating the finished cake.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1 teaspoon salt in a medium bowl.
• Whisk together the eggs and granulated sugar in a large bowl until smooth, about 1 minute. Whisk in the oil until well combined. Add the grated carrots, vanilla and 1 cup chopped pecans, and mix well. Add the dry ingredients, and stir until just combined. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the cakes are nicely browned, about 30 minutes. Let cool on a cooling rack for 10 minutes. Loosen the edges with a spatula, turn the cakes out and let cool completely, right-side up, on the cooling rack, about 2 hours. Remove the parchment before frosting.
• For the frosting: Beat the cream cheese and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, scraping down the side as necessary, until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and 1/2 teaspoon salt; gradually increase the mixer speed to medium-high, and beat until the sugar is incorporated and the frosting is fluffy and smooth, about 3 minutes. With the mixer on medium-high, add the cream a few drops at time until it's all incorporated. Continue beating for 1 more minute until the frosting is slightly lighter in color and creamy.
• To assemble: Place one of the cake layers on a serving plate, and spread 1 cup of the frosting over the top. Top with the other layer, and use the remaining frosting to frost the top and sides of the cake. Arrange the 12 whole pecans on top of the cake like the numbers on a clock face, and sprinkle the remaining chopped pecans in between.

OLD-FASHIONED CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the eggs, sugar and oil. Combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg; beat into egg mixture. Stir in carrots., Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in another large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Add enough milk to achieve desired spreading consistency. Reserve 1/2 cup frosting for decorating if desired. If desired, stir walnuts into remaining frosting. , Spread frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake. If decorating the cake, tint 1/4 cup reserved frosting orange and 1/4 cup green. Cut a small hole in the corner of pastry or plastic bag; insert #7 round pastry tip. Fill the bag with orange frosting. Pipe twelve carrots on top of cake, so each slice will have a carrot. Using #67 leaf pastry tip and the green frosting, pipe a leaf at the top of each carrot. , Store cake in the refrigerator.

CARROT CAKE WITH PHILLY CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• Cake: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and salt in medium bowl; set aside. Beat eggs and oil in large bowl with wire whisk until well blended. Gradually add granulated sugar, mixing until blended. Add flour mixture, carrots, pineapple and walnuts; mix well. Pour into greased and floured 12-cup fluted tube pan or 10-inch (3-L) tube pan.
• Bake 50 min. to 1 hour or until wooden toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean. Cool 10 min.; loosen from sides of pan with spatula or knife and gently remove cake. Cool completely on wire rack.
• Icing: Beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl with electric mixer until well blended. Gradually add icing sugar, juice and peel, beating until well blended after each addition. Spread on top of cake. Store leftover cake in refrigerator.

AWESOME CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
• In a large bowl, combine grated carrots, flour, white sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in eggs, oil, 1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, pineapple and 3/4 cup chopped pecans. Spoon batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.
• To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, Neufchatel cheese, 1/2 cup butter or margarine and 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla. Beat until smooth, then stir in 1 cup chopped pecans. Spread on cooled cake.

VEGAN CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Set your oven to 180C Normal or 200C Fan. Prep 2 9 or 10 inch Cake tins with Baking Paper.
• In a bowl, grate your carrot and combine with the sugar. Mix. (Mix 1)
• Add the Oil, Plant-Based Milk and Vanilla Essence. Mix again. (Mix 1)
• In a separate bowl. Sieve your flour, then add in Baking Powder, Salt, the Nuts and your Spices. (Mix 2)
• Fold your dry mixture into the wet mixture until thoroughly combined.
• Separate into the pans. Drop your tins from a very small height to release any extra air bubbles.
• Cook for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Once cooked, cool for 1 hour at room temperature.
• For the cream cheese frosting, Sieve your icing sugar into a bowl and wish together with the other ingredients. It should be thick and hold it's shape when ready.
• Add more icing sugar if too thin or a little coconut oil. The icing is best placed in the fridge for an hour to harden slightly before layering on the cake.
• Serve immediately. Alternatively, keep in a cake tin at room temperate or in the fridge. Will keep for up to a week.

CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare three 8 inch cake pans* by lightly coating with cooking spray and lining with parchment paper on the bottom.
• Beat the eggs, granulated sugar, brown sugar, oil, buttermilk, vanilla, and pineapple together in a large bowl.
• In another bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, salt and nutmeg. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until incorporated.
• Fold in the carrots, pecans and raisins just until evenly distributed throughout the batter.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Bake on the center oven rack until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 25-30 minutes. Allow cakes to cool in the pans for 10-15 minutes before inverting them onto a wire rack to cool completely.

CARROT CAKE WITH PECAN CREAM FILLING AND CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• For Pecan Cream Filling: A day before you make the cake, blend the sugar, flour and salt in a heavy saucepan.
• Gradually stir in the cream.
• Add the butter.
• Cook and stir the mixture over low heat until the butter has melted; then let simmer 20 to 30 minutes until golden brown, stirring occasionally.
• Cool to lukewarm.
• Stir in the pecans and vanilla.
• Let the mixture cool completely.
• Refrigerate it overnight.
• If it is too thick to spread, bring it to room temperature before using.
• For Carrot Cake: Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the corn oil and the sugar.
• In another bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Sift half the dry ingredients into the oil-sugar mixture, then blend well.
• Sift in the rest of the dry ingredients while adding the eggs, one at a time.
• Mix well.
• Add the carrots and pecans and mix again. (If you like raisins in your cake, feel free to throw some in now).
• Pour the batter into the prepared tube pan.
• Bake for 70 minutes, or until the cake begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
• Cool upright, in the pan, on a rack.
• While the cake is baking, prepare the icing.
• Icing: Cream together the butter and cream cheese until well blended and fluffy.
• Sift in the confectioners' sugar.
• Cream again. Then beat in the vanilla and the salt. If the icing is too soft to spread, chill it for a few minutes.
• Refrigerate it if you don't plan to use it right away, but bring it back to room temperature before using.
• Assembly: Run knife around inside of pan to loosen cake.
• Invert onto serving plate.
• With a long serrated knife, carefully split the cake into 3 horizontal layers.
• Spread the filling between the layers. (You may not need it all).
• Frost the top and sides of the cake with the icing.

CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare cake batter as directed on package. Blend in dry pudding mix. Gently stir in carrots and raisins. Pour into 13x9-inch pan sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake 45 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan.
• Beat cream cheese, butter and syrup in medium bowl with mixer until blended. Gently stir in COOL WHIP. Spread over top of cake. Refrigerate until ready to serve.