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Serves
10-12
Creator Notes
That’s an lovely carrot cake, moist, rich, aromatic with spices, now not too candy and the truth is ultimate! —Ausra
Substances
- Cake
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2 cups
flour
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2 teaspoons
baking soda
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1 teaspoon
salt
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1 teaspoon
cinnamon
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2 cups
sugar
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1 1/4 cups
vegetable oil
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4
immense eggs
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3 cups
shredded carrots
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1 1/4 cups
chopped walnuts
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1/2 cup
golden raisins
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2 tablespoons
minced original ginger
- Icing
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8 tablespoons
unsalted butter
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10 oz
cream cheese
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2 1/2 cups
powdered sugar
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1/4 teaspoon
salt
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2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350oF.
- Butter one 9 x 13″ baking pan (or two 9″ round pans). Line the bottom of the pan with parchment, butter the parchment, mud with flour.
- Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
- Within the immense bowl wisk together sugar and oil. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing successfully between each addition.
- Add flour mixture to the egg mixture. Mix unless correct incorporated.
- Add shredded carrots, nuts, raisins, ginger, mix every little thing. Spoon the batter into prepared pan (pans). Bake 35-40 min or unless tester inserted in the heart of the cake comes out enticing.
- Raise away the cake from the oven, let it frigid for 20 minutes, then flip it out of the baking pan, take care of away the parchment and space it on the serving platter or cake stand. Let frigid utterly.
- For icing: beat cream cheese and butter with electric mixer unless gentle. Add sugar, salt, vanilla extract, mix successfully.
- If icing is simply too thick you’ll want to possibly well most probably add 1-2 tablespoon of milk. If icing is simply too skinny – add more powdered sugar.
- Ice the cake with icing. Decorate, must you desire.