Homemade Carrot Cake
This is the best Homemade Carrot Cake. It has the perfect balance of sweetness and spice, lots of carrots to keep it moist, and uses both oil and applesauce to keep the cake from being overly greasy. The cream cheese frosting is also superb.
Servings: 16
Prep:40 minutes
Cook:35 minutes
Ready in: 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 cups (283gram) of all-purpose flour (scoop and level to measure)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup (175ml) vegetable oil
- 1 cup (200gram) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (130gram) unsweetened applesauce
- 3/4 cup (150gram) packed light brown sugar (break up any clumps)
- 3 cups (348gram) of finely grated carrots
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)
- Recipe for the Cream Cheese Frosting CLICK HERE (use amounts listed in notes there for a 2-layer cake)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Butter two 9″ round cake pans, line them with buttery parchment paper, sprinkle flour on them and shake out the excess. If you have cake strips, you can use them to line pans.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger in a mixing bowl.
- Blend the vegetable oil, applesauce, eggs, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer.
- Mix all dry ingredients together after adding them. Just enough carrots have been grated to distribute evenly. Pour mixture into 2 prepared cake pans in an even layer.
- Bake for about 35 to 38 minutes in a preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- After taking the cakes out of the oven, let them cool in the pan for ten minutes before inverting them onto a wire rack to complete cooling.
- Cakes should be frosted and, if used, finished with chopped pecans. The cake should be refrigerated in an airtight container.
Notes
- This cake can also be baked in a 9×13 dish; simply increase the baking time to around 40 to 50 minutes, or halve the recipe and bake it in an 8×8 dish or just one (9-inch) round pan (bake time should be the same).
- You can use a box grater with tiny holes to grate.
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