Recipe: Tasty Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake. Check Our Step-By-Step Guide To Bake Up A Sweet Treat For Your Loved Ones. Carrot Cake with Pineapple Frosting "Delicious! Everyone raved over dessert tonight—this cake is a definite keeper!" - Christina.

In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. I like using all-purpose flour, but you can substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat or white whole wheat flour. You can cook Carrot Cake using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

1. It's 2 cup of flour.
2. Prepare 2 tsp of baking soda.
3. You need 1 tsp of salt.
4. You need 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
5. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
6. Prepare 4 of eggs.
7. It's 1 cup of oil.
8. You need 7 large of carrots (grated).
9. It's 1 cup of raisins.
10. You need 1 cup of nuts.
11. Prepare 1/2 cup of coconut.

For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise. Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work.

Carrot Cake step by step

1. Mix the first 5 ingredients..
2. Slowly add to already beaten eggs and oil..
3. Mix in carrots, raisins, nuts and coconut..
4. Grease and flour 13 x 9 pan..
5. Bake 350°F for 40 minutes..

To make this carrot cake, you'll start by mixing up your dry ingredients. One important thing when measuring out your dry ingredients is to make sure to spoon and level your flour. You want to avoid packing the flour into the measuring cup, otherwise, you'll end up with too much in your recipe. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined.