Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
Make ready All Purpose Flour
Prepare Baking Soda
Make ready Baking Powder
Get Ground Cinnamon
Prepare Salt
Make ready Sugar
Take Large Eggs
Get Vegetable Oil
Make ready Vanilla Extract
Get Grated Carrots
Prepare Chopped Pecans
Take Coconut (I used Bakers Angel Flake Sweetened coconut)
Make ready can Crushed Pineapple (put in strainer and let juice drain. I used a fork to press out more liquid
Instructions to make Carrot cake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Line the bottoms of 3 (8inch) or 2 (9inch) round pans with wax or parchment paper, grease with shortening and flour the paper and pans for easy release when turning out……carrot cake has a tendency to stick so be sure to use the paper.
In a mixing bowl, add 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup oil and 1 tsp. vanilla. Mix 2 to 3 minutes at medium speed until well blended and light colored.
With a spoon stir in the flour until moistened, then add the carrots, pecans crushed pineapple and coconut.
Bake 35 minutes at 350 degrees or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Refrain from opening the oven door or touching the center of the cake to test for doneness until very near the end of baking time or it could cause the cake to sink slightly in the center.
Cool cake layers in pan for 10 minutes on a wire rack then turn out. Cool completely before frosting.
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