Best Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 1⁄2 cups vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 3 cups shredded carrots
- 1⁄2 cup pecans, chopped
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar
- 1⁄4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
directions
- 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.
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