bette's best carrot cake
This carrot cake recipe was my mother's. My mother was one of the best cooks around. On my daughter's 3rd birthday her grandmother made this cake for her and ever since then this is the cake she requests. My daughter is going to be 27 tomorrow so we have been making this recipe for a long time. My mother, her grandmother is no longer with us but her recipe lives on. I think this is the best carrot cake recipe. Hope you think so too. Enjoy. Thank you for letting me share.
Blue Ribbon Recipe
This carrot cake recipe was passed down to Linda from her mother and it is an old-fashioned (and delicious) cake. The carrot cake is super tender and moist. Shredding the carrots and adding brown sugar to the bowl lets the carrots marinate in their juices before adding them to the batter. Adding the homemade cream cheese frosting to the warm cake is fantastic. The frosting slightly seeps into the cake making it even better.
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups fresh grated carrots
- 4 - eggs
- 1 1/2 cups corn oil
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon allspice seasoning
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)
- ICING
- 1 package cream cheese, softened, 8 oz
- 1/2 stick butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 box confectioners' sugar
How To Make bette's best carrot cake
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Step 1Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Beat eggs into oil, one at a time in mixing bowl. -
Step 2Mix grated carrots in a separate bowl with brown sugar and set aside.
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Step 3Sift all dry ingredients twice.
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Step 4Add sifted dry ingredients to eggs and oil mixture.
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Step 5Slowly add vanilla. Then add carrots and brown sugar mixture.
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Step 6Stir thoroughly.
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Step 7Add nuts and stir.
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Step 8Pour into a buttered or oiled 9 x 13-inch pan.
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Step 9Bake for 1 hour at 325 degrees. Test cake for doneness by inserting a knife to see if comes out clean.
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Step 10For the icing, beat together softened cream cheese, softened butter, and confectioners' sugar.
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Step 11Spread icing on carrot cake while warm.
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Step 12Serve and enjoy the best carrot cake you will ever eat.
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