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Want to know how to make a delicious dessert? You've come to the right place. How about TheBest Carrot Cake Recipe? (Yep, it's so good that I actually call it "The Best Carrot Cake Recipe"!)
I'm all for cooking healthy food, but some of the best desserts combine a little from both worlds. Now, I can't begin to attest that carrot cake is healthy. But it can't be BAD with all those good ingredients in it, right? Help me out here!
Why is it The Best Carrot Cake Recipe?
"Melt in your mouth"are the best words to describe this carrot cake creation. The Best Carrot Cake Recipe has the best (of course) of everything: carrots, dates, walnuts, and yes... even applesauce. Oh, and did I forget to mention that I love totop it with an out of this world White Chocolate Rum Ganacheor Easy Cream Cheese Frosting?
How to Make The Best Carrot Cake Recipe
This is one of those types of cake that you'll be tempted to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's so moist and enjoyable. You'll certainly want to savor each and every last bite.
Be very careful not to gobble down this masterpiece, AND if you're bringing this to a gathering — you might want to make sure to bring a few copies of the recipe. Friends and family are always asking for this recipe.
Have your cake and eat it too with The Best Carrot Cake Recipe!
Let's Make The Best Carrot Cake Ever!
Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Then, get out your wet ingredients: vegetable oil, applesauce, and eggs.
Now whisk 'em together until they're well blended.
Now peel and grate your carrots.
After grating the carrots, get out your dry ingredients: flour, sugar (you can use a little less if you prefer a carrot cake that isn't quite as sweet), baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon.
Slowly pour the dry ingredients into the wet and stir until just mixed and free of lumps.
Assemble your remaining ingredients: carrots, dates, and walnuts.
Pour the carrots, dates, and walnuts into the batter...
... and stir until they're evenly dispersed.
Now, spread your carrot cake batter evenly across two greased cake pans.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.Enjoy the wonderful smells coming from your oven while your carrot cake is baking. The smellof carrot cake is unbeatable!
Remove the cakes from the pans carefully by covering them with a plate and turning them over. Lift the pan up slowly to make sure the cake is not sticking to the pan.
When the cakes have sufficiently cooled, now you can spread a thick layer ofEasy Cream Cheese Frosting between the two layers. I also like to take additional chopped walnuts and add them to the outside of the frosting. (This looks pretty and it also tastes amazing!)
There you have it — The Best Carrot Cake Recipe! It really doesn't get any better than this.
More Cake Recipes
It's tough to live up to this amazing cake recipe, but here are a few more for you to try:
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Pound Cake with Berries
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The Best Carrot Cake Recipe
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Carrot Cake is good food, and this is the best carrot cake worldwide. More good-for-you ingredients and an easy cake recipe for homemade cake fun.
White Chocolate Rum Ganache Glazerecipe here or Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe here)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, mix together oil, eggs, and applesauce until well blended. Slowly pour in the dry ingredients and stir until just mixed and lump free. Add in the carrots, dates and walnuts and stir until evenly dispersed.
Grease two cake pans and pour in cake batter, making sure that it is spread out evenly.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Remove from cake pans carefully by covering with a plate and turning over. Lift the pan up slowly to make sure the cake is not sticking to the pan.
Much of the tender, melt-in-the-mouth texture of cake comes from gas bubbles, which subdivide the batter into fragile sheets. The majority of this air is added in this initial stage by vigorous mixing of the fat and sugar – a process called "creaming".
Homemade carrot cake can last for 2 to 3 days at room temperature, 5 to 7 days in the refrigerator, and up to 3 to 4 months in the freezer. Store-bought carrot cake typically has a longer shelf life due to preservatives and airtight packaging. To maximize the freshness of carrot cake, proper storage is essential.
If you're making the carrot cake and start to second-guess the number of carrots called for in our recipe, don't. You need all three cups. It is a carrot cake, after all. Pecans and Raisins: These add texture, but they are optional.
5. My cake has sunk in the middle. There are three main reasons for this: a/ the oven door has been opened before the cake has set, b/ the cake didn't go in the oven as soon as the mixture was ready or c/ there's too much raising agent.
The melting method is another foolproof baking method beloved by home chefs. Just remember to melt the fat and sugar together slowly to prevent splitting, then let the mixture cool to room temperature before adding the eggs and sifted dry ingredients. Ready to get melting?
In the melting method, the butter or fat and sugar are melted together in a pot before the eggs are added. After which, the other dry ingredients are mixed in the mixture. This method does not use whisking or beating, so in order to make the cake rise, you would need some baking powder.
Butter also gives them flavor. But for cakes like chocolate cake and carrot cake that have flavor from other ingredients, I find flavorless oil is the best choice. Applesauce: To prevent the cake from tasting too moist (wet) and oily, I add some applesauce. You could even use crushed pineapple, too!
Cream cheese frosting and carrot cake are a little unruly when they're warm, so the fridge is your friend. The cake itself is much easier to frost and slice when it's been refrigerated — the soft, moist crumb contracts when it's chilled and doesn't tear or fall apart as easily.
If you don't wish to mix and bake this sourdough carrot cake straight away, you can ferment the cake batter overnight. In order to do this, you will want to mix the batter a little differently. To ferment the cake batter overnight, leave out the baking soda, but mix the rest of the ingredients as instructed.
Seriously though, if using only natural carrots, it is hard to get a significant carroty taste in a cake, mainly because 1) carrots don't have a very strong taste, 2) some of the taste is lost with cooking, and 3) the native texture and taste of a cake overwhelm whatever taste is remaining in the carrots.
The key to getting an intense carrot flavor in my cake is using two types of carrots: a caramelized carrot puree and finely shredded carrots. Roasted and pureed carrots make this cake intensely carrot flavored. Carrots are a natural source of sugar, and roasting them at a high temperature caramelizes the sugars within.
Carrots contain pigments that are sensitive to changes in pH balance. When the shreds of carrot come into contact with the alkaline baking soda, a chemical reaction takes place that causes the pigments to change color.
The idea behind this test is you can insert a toothpick or paring knife into the center of the cake to see if the crumb has set. If the tester comes out clean, it's done. If it comes out gummy or with crumbs clinging to it, the cake needs more time in the oven.
Yes, the carrots, but also typical extras like raisins, chopped nuts, or shredded coconut, which enhance the flavor and texture of the final result, add to the problem of cleanly lopping off a piece. For example, raisins create uneven pockets of moisture within the cake, causing slices to crumble more easily.
Foods I classify as meltable textures literally melt in your mouth. They can start crunchy, frozen or soft, but without much chewing our tongue can mush them together so they can be swallowed. Meltable foods are a great introduction to chewing.
Cakes covered with buttercream in cool conditions, can be kept for several days at room temperature but warm humid weather will create a melted mess. Simple #buttercream will form a crust because of its high sugar content, but it will remain lovely and soft on the inside.
If you have a true sugar allergy, you might experience certain symptoms when you eat sugar, such as: Hives. Congestion. An itchy, tingling sensation in your mouth.
Eggs are for binding the ingredients and trapping air. Flour provides the fundamental structure. Gases — whether it's simply air beaten into egg-whites or bubbles of carbon dioxide from a raising agent — make the characteristic light texture of a good cake.
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