Recipe: Appetizing Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. For frosting, in another large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Pipe twelve carrots on top of cake, so each slice will have a carrot. The BEST Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting.

For the frosting, blend the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla until smooth. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar until smooth. I love cream cheese frosting and carrot cake was always my favorite cake for my birthdays growing up! You can cook Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

1. You need of Cake:.
2. You need 2 cups of AP flour.
3. Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
4. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
5. You need 1 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1 cup of melted butter.
7. Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
8. You need 4 of eggs.
9. Prepare 1 package of matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated).
10. It's 8 oz of can crushed pineapple.
11. Prepare 1 cup of chopped walnuts.
12. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
13. Prepare of Frosting:.
14. You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
15. Prepare 1 of \2 cup softened butter.
16. Prepare 1 cup of confectioner sugar.
17. It's 2 tsp of vanilla.

For the frosting, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Frosting the top and sides of the cakes and use your spatula to create swirls in the frosting. Sprinkle a few walnut pieces on the top of the cake as garnish, or press the walnut pieces onto the sides of the cake. Fluffy cream cheese frosting makes the ultimate topper for an ultramoist, classic carrot cake.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting instructions

1. Preheat oven 350°.
2. Sift together dry ingredients.
3. Blend in oil, sugar and eggs.
4. Beat until well blended.
5. Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla.
6. Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan.
7. Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.
8. Cool completely before removing from pan.
9. Frosting:.
10. Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended.
11. Add vanilla and mix thoroughly.
12. Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently.
13. If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt.
14. Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts.

My husband who is a huge fan of the Magnolia carrot cake loved this one and said it was the best carrot cake he had. There's a reason I've called this the The Ultimate Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting: it's extra moist and tender and flavored with the perfect blend of spices. It's then topped with a smooth and creamy whipped cream cheese frosting. Carrot Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting. I like to grate the carrots by hand — actually, that's a lie, I don't enjoy it one bit — because I want Those look totally lovely!