Perfectly Delicious Carrot Cake
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
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1 cake
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 2⁄3 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 3 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup oil
- 1⁄2 cup applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 8 ounces crushed pineapple, mostly drained
- 2 cups carrots, shredded
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped
- 1⁄2 cup raisins (optional)
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frosting
- 1⁄8 cup butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 lb powdered sugar
directions
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For the cake:
- preheat the oven to 350.
- combine dry ingredients well.
- whisk together eggs, applesauce, oil, vanilla.
- stir the wet ingredients into the dry until combined, don't over mix.
- fold in carrots, pineapple and nuts.
- pour into a greased 9x13 baking dish and bake 40-50 minutes until done.
- cool completely.
- For the frosting:.
- cream butter, cream cheese, vanilla and sugar with beaters on medium speed until smooth and creamy.
- *I don't usually add all of the sugar. Start with a cup or two and taste, add more to get desired sweetness.
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I live in MI with my family and am always on the lookout for new tasty recipes that even my toddler will like. He loves meat and pasta, most fruit and is getting better about veggies. I cook every meal 7 days a week, with the occasional lunch or dinner out (very occasional!) but I love cooking so it's not a bad thing to me.
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<br>I am a big sweets eater and recently got an ice cream maker so I have been whipping up lots of ice cream. My favorite so far has been Ben and Jerry's heath bar crunch, it's so creamy and only lasts 2 days in this house! Other baked goods and homemade bread are favorites too, though not much bread gets baked in the summer.
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<br>I know it seems like I give lots of good reviews, but there is a good reason: I know what we like, so I pick dishes I think we will like, and often we do. If i give a review of a recipe with no stars it's because I think I did something wrong usually so that's why it didn't come out right. Or if something has excellent ratings and I don't like it, I don't want to ruin that, because obviously I didn't like something, but that's not a refection of the actual recipe!
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<br>I dislike when people don't make the recipe correctly and give it a bad review. Ok, if you change one or two small things, fine, but if you make major changes, not ok. And when people give a bad review because it was good, but not what they are looking for? Sorry, but I don't get that. YOU picked it, if it tastes good but wasn't what you were looking for, not the recipe's fault :)