Best Carrot Cake
By
Aneisha Grinton
@Showmans_wifey
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I just made this yesterday and the icing is to die for!!! It is inspired by a cake sold at Wegman's grocery store and an icing I saw on this site.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 tsp
- pineapple juice
- 2 c
- powered sugar or confectioner's sugar
- 1/2 c
- butter, softened (1 full stick)
- 1 tsp
- vanilla extract
- 16 oz
- cream cheese, softened
- 2 c
- flour
- 2 c
- sugar
- 1 tsp
- baking soda
- 1 tsp
- salt
- 1/2 tsp
- baking powder
- 2 tsp
- cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp
- nutmeg
- 1 pinch
- allspice, ground
- 4
- eggs
- 1/2 c
- vegetable oil
- 1 c
- applesauce, unsweetened
- 3 c
- carrots, grated
- 1 c
- walnuts, chopped
- 8 1/2 oz
- pineapples, crushed
- 1/4 c
- golden raisins
- 1/4 c
- raisins
- 1/4 c
- coconut, flaked
- crisco spray with flour
PINEAPPLE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
CARROT CAKE
How to Make Best Carrot Cake
- 1Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- 2Mix flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, and allspice in a bowl.
- 3In a seperate bowl mix oil, applesauce, pineapples, raisins, and coconut.
- 4Add eggs by hand to dry mix 1 by 1.
- 5Then using an electric mixer on low setting to add the wet mix to egg mix.
- 6Then by hand mix in the carrots and walnuts.
- 7Use some crisco spray w/ flour and spray 2 9 inch pans.
- 8Pour batter into the pans
- 9Cook for about 40 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- 10For the icing mix the butter and cream cheese with electric mixer.
- 11Add powdered sugar little by little.
- 12Once the sugar is in add the pineapple juice, then the vanilla extract.
- 13Once the cake has cooled, ice the cake.
