Carrot Cake

Submitted by motherof4boys

"This is an awesome carrot cake. Really moist."

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 cups grated carrots
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup cooking oil
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

directions

1. Grease and lightly flour baking pans.
2. 2 8x11/2 inch or 9x11/2 inch.
3. Preheat oven to 325.
4. In mixing bowl stir together all the dry ingredients.
5. Add carrot, cooking oil and eggs and beat together on low till combined.
6. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
7. Turn into prepared pans.
8. Bake for 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
9. Cool 10 minutes in pans then remove to racks to completely cool.
10. (If you want on a one layer cake just divide all ingredients in half.).

Reviews

[Audrey M]

I love carrot cake and this recipe is tops. Don't forget to add the cream cheese icing.

 

[JeannaLW]

This was quite good; I made as directed but substituted applesauce for the cooking oil. It is moist but perhaps a little bland. A good basic recipe but doesn't have the "wow" factor. I may make it again but would probably experiment with spices to give it a little more oomph. I thought it definitely did need icing so topped it with cream cheese icing, which complimented it nicely.

 

[ShakenCake]

No need to frost this delicious cake! I was looking for a carrot cake recipe that had no crushed pineapple and this was perfect! I used brown sugar, and added pecans and vanilla. Now I can't stop eating it!

 

[Dutchee 466451]

Very moist and tasty! Even better with just a few nuts!

 

[genus]

Very delicious and moist, BUT--it took a lot longer than 15 minutes to finely grate the carrots and prepare the cake. A food processor would have sped up the process. Mine doesn't have a fine grater attachment, so I had to grate by hand. The cake was extremely dense, rather than light and fluffy. It didn't seem to rise very much. Maybe that's just the nature of carrot cake. The flavor was extremely good, though, and no need for frosting!