OUT OF THIS WORLD CARROT CAKE RECIPE WITH CALLIE’S CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
OUT OF THIS WORLD CARROT CAKE RECIPE WITH CALLIE’S CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
A moist and delicious carrot cake chuck full of flavor and texture, topped with the best cream cheese frosting you will ever have.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups white sugar
- ½ cup oil
- 3 eggs
- ¾ cup sour milk, put 1 tsp lemon juice in a your measuring cup and then fill to ¾ cup with milk, let sit for 3-5 minutes
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour, I did one cup whole wheat one cup all purpose
- 2½ tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salts
- 2 cup finely shredded carrot. (don't do the big shred or they will still be a little crunchy even after cooking)
- 1 cup crushed pineapple, don't drain
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- ½ cup walnuts, plus more for garnish on frosted cake if desired
- 1 cup raisins (optional) (I do not add raisins)
- See recipe for Frosting under this recipe
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and grease and flour two circle cake pans. (I also lined mine with a cutout of waxed paper to make them come out nice and perfect (picture below)
- In your mixer or with a hand mixer, combine sugar, oil, eggs and milk. Mix well.
- Add vanilla and mix until combined
- Add flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt and mix until combined.
- Next fold in the carrots, nuts, coconut, pineapple and raisins(if using). Fold them in until they are evenly distributed throughout the cake.
- Pour half of the batter into each cake pan.
- Bake at 350 for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean from center of cake.
- Let cool completely before frosting.