Monday, April 19, 2010

Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

   

Here is the recipe for a simple and tasty carrot cake. One of my friends shared this recipe with me and she tried it from here.

Ingredients


1. All purpose flour/maida - 2 cups

2. Granulated sugar - 1.5 cups
3. Vegetable oil - 1 cup

4. Eggs - 3 large 
5. Ground cinnamon powder - 2 tsp
6. Baking Soda - 1 tsp
7. Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
8. Grated carrots - 3 cups
9. Chopped walnuts - 1 cup

10. Salt - Around 1/2 tsp

 

Method

1. Beat sugar, oil and eggs in a bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until they are blended (about 1 minute). Add everything else apart from the carrots and nuts. Beat until blended for 1 minute on low speed.

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2. Add the carrots and walnuts and stir them in. Pour into a 13 x 9 inch  pan or two 8 inch or 9 inch round pans (I halved all the ingredients and used a 9 inch round pan). Bake at 350 F for 40 - 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean . Allow it to cool down completely.

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For the cream cheese frosting

Ingredients

1. Philadelphia cream cheese - 8 oz
2. Butter - 1/4 cup 
3. Milk - 3-4 tsp
4. Vanilla - 1 tsp
5. Icing sugar/confectioners sugar - 4 cups (I used 2 cups)

 

Method

1. Beat the cream cheese, butter, milk and vanilla until smooth on low speed.
2. Gradually add in the icing sugar 1 cup at a time and beat until smooth.

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3. Spread on the cooled cake. Store in a refrigerator.

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35 comments:

  1. Looks perfect and your pictures are wonderful :) Do you know how to make fruit cake (the one we get in bakery in India, with dried, different colour cherries in it)....I just love them and I am looking for a recipe :)

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  2. A yummy cake! Yummy team gave me a peice to taste it. Trust me guys, it was sooo yummy!!!

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  3. wow.. no chance.. awesome.. really spongeeeeeeee...

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  4. Wooow,,dear carrot cake with cheese frosting looks great da maa,,i like carrot cake very much cos of cinnamon smell n taste thats gives nice aroma while baking itself...cake looks softtttt dear..

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  5. SUch a scrumptious cake, love that cheese frosting, feel like grabbing that plate and finish them immediately..yumm!!

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  6. oh this is very tempting. I will try this week end. thanks for the lovely recipe.

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  7. A healthier cake....mmm. This is my favourite and i love the cheese frosting...mmmm

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  8. Lovely looking cake and a healthy one too.

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  9. what a divine picture, my friends...the cake looks delish.

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  10. Hmmm. Cake looks perfect and very tempting dear:-)

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  11. This is a very beautiful and perfectly baked cake

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  12. Wow carrot cake looks awesome...so tempting...lovely click :)

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  13. Loved ur step by step pic.cake has came out so wellllll :)

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  14. wow what a gorgeous cake, i love carrot cake and frosting recipe is superb...looks so creamy

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  15. Adipoli cake tou...soo perfectly baked dears...Kidu kidu..

    Love
    KS

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  16. Fantastic look.. yummy .. very colourful & perfect..

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  17. yummy carrot cake! loving it..

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  18. That's a delicious cake with the cream cheese frosting! Have not made carrot cake for a while.

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  19. One of my favs too...ayyo vayil vellam niranju...

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  20. What a combination dear,Carrots and Walnuts.
    Looking delicious.

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  21. First time here..Carrot Cake looks perfect and YUMMM...Following you !!!

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  22. Carrot cake looks delicious ,super moist and devine.

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  23. looks very simple.Preparing carrot is very difficult to me always.I am going to try your version this saturday.

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  24. Since I had all the ingredients at home,tried it today itself.Very tasty and Moist Cake.
    Made some changes though.
    I used nicely ground wheat bran,mashed banana and some orange juice, along with Carrots,Walnut etc..So it was looking like a brown cake.
    My little girl loved it and named it "Carrot brownie":-))
    Thank You Yummies.

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  25. cake looks so gorgeous...and perfect too..wishing to have a bite...mainly for the icing...

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  26. That is a perfect slice of cake...

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  27. This is just a great coincidence! My sister and I had been looking for carrot cake recipes for this weekend's BBQ. So glad I found yours!

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  28. Thank You All for your lovely words :)

    Life is beautiful,
    I do not have the recipe for fruit cake but one of my friends is an expert at making those cakes. I will surely get it for you :)

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  29. Ohhhhhhhhhhh they look soooooo yummy...

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  30. Fabulous pics!! Carrot cake looks so pretty and yummy..

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