Cant get your kids to eat carrots because they love sweets? Well the Carrot Cake is your answer!
Sweet, Delicious, and you can get at least half of your daily dose of vegetables from it!
This recipe is a mix of two that I found; one from a cook book in my kitchen and one from food network.
Many of the recipes had either yogurt, pineapple, raisins, or some other weird combo that made it sound unappetizing so I mixed one that was just carrots, cake batter and walnuts.
Carrot Cake Recipe
1 Cup of Sugar
3/4ths a Cup of Brown Sugar, packed down
2 Cups of All Purpose flour.
1 Teaspoon of salt, preferably not Kosher salt.
2 and 1/2 Teaspoons of Cinnamon
1/4th a Teaspoon of Nutmeg
1 Teaspoon of Ground Clove
1/2 Teaspoon of Allspice
1 and 1/2 teaspoons of Baking Soda [or bicarbonate of soda]
1 and 1/2 cups of Canola/Vegetable Oil [can be substituted for Apple Sauce]
4 Eggs, room temperature to help with mixing.
3 and 1/2 cups of Carrots, Grated [3~4 Carrots depending on the size]
1 Cup of Chopped Walnuts
Directions
This is in the order of how I did things;
1. Mix the dry ingredients [flour, sugar, baking soda, spices] with the oil, stir to mix.
2. Peel and Grate the Carrots.
3. Chop the walnuts.
4. Add in the four eggs one at a time. Once mixed, add in the Carrots and Walnuts.
5. Before mixing the Carrots and Walnuts in, Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
6. Grease and flour a 13x9 Pan. [Note: If your using Arisol spray, make sure you keep the can sprayer pointed down unless you want a mouthful or arisol. Turn the pan to do this.]
7. Pour the cake batter into the pan and bake at 350F for 60~70 Minutes.
8. Once done, Put on a Cooling Rack or you can keep it in the pan.
9. Let it cool before you add the icing.
Cream Cheese Icing
What Carrot cake is complete without the icing?
Recipe
4 Ounces of unsalted Butter [a little more than one stick], Make sure its room temperature!
4 Ouncess of Cream cheese [Room temp as well]
2 Cups of Sugar
1 Teaspoon if Vanilla Extract.
Directions
1. Beat the Butter and Cream Cheese with a Mixer [electric or otherwise, electric saves your hands.]
2. Once beaten, put the mixer on low and add the sugar and vanilla Extract.
3. Once it has completely been mixed together, slather and smooth it over the carrot cake.
4. Enjoy!
