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Easy Carrot Cake

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filed under: CAKES on April 3, 2017

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This semi-homemade Easy Carrot Cake Recipe is

the recipe everyone will be begging you for. I
have fooled everyone with this cake… it tastes
100% homemade, but I use a time saving (and
flavor adding) trick… find out what secret
ingredient I use to add depth and richness to my
cake! (And don’t miss my 50 Best Cake Recipes
in the World!)

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Easy Carrot Cake

Recipe
PREP TIME
15 MINS
COOK TIME
1 HR 30 MINS
TOTAL TIME
1 HR 45 MINS

This semi-homemade Easy Carrot Cake

Recipe is the recipe everyone will be
begging you for. I have fooled everyone
with this cake… it’s tastes 100%
homemade, but I use a time saving (and
flavor adding) trick… find out what
secret ingredient I use to add depth and
richness to my cake!

COURSE: DESSERT CUISINE: AMERICAN

KEYWORD: EASY CARROT CAKE RECIPE

SERVINGS: 8 SERVINGS

AUTHOR: AMANDA RETTKE

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INGREDIENTS
1 box yellow cake mix
2 cups grated carrots
½ cup water
3 large eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup raisins
1/2 cup crushed pineapple, do not
drain
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 cup walnuts, chopped

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. (If you have a
convection oven heat to 325°F.)
2. Prepare (butter and flour, spray with
pan release, or use GOOP) two 8-inch
round cake pans.
3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, add all
the ingredients and beat at low speed
just until everything is
just incorporated, then increase the
speed to medium and beat for another
2 minutes.
4. Divide the batter into the two
prepared pans and place in the oven
for 35-40 minutes.
5. Test the cakes at 30 minutes; if a
toothpick comes out clean, the cakes
are done.
6. Allow cakes to cool for about 10
minutes in the pan, then invert onto a
cooling rack until the cakes cool
to room temperature. Do not frost
cakes until they have cooled
completely

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Brown Sugar
Cream Cheese
Frosting
COURSE: DESSERT CUISINE: AMERICAN

AUTHOR: AMANDA RETTKE

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INGREDIENTS
2 tbsp. Countryside Creamy unsalted
butter
2 8-ounce packages Happy Farms
cream cheese, softened
1/4 c Baker's Corner Light Brown
Sugar
4 c Baker's Corner Confectioners
Sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Melt butter and allow it to cool.
2. In a large bowl, combine cream
cheese, butter, brown sugar,
confectioners sugar, and vanilla
extract. Mix on medium-high until
smooth and creamy.
3. Spread immediately and store cake in
refrigerator.

Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

I love this recipe for a couple of big reasons:

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1. It’s easy.
2. It’s got REAL ingredients!

Did you catch my unconventional ingredient in

there? I used Yellow Cake mix. Why not use
carrot cake? Well, the yellow cake mix adds a
buttery richness that boxed carrot cake just can’t
replicate.

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On top of that, I love that I can control the spice

and the amounts of nuts, carrots, raisins, etc.
This recipe can be perfectly adapted to
individuals’ tastes and not all recipes can offer
that! Don’t worry though, we will get those
amazing spices in there!

Just look at the gorgeous cake. I had a hard time

getting a fork out and digging right in!

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The next best part of this recipe?

Brown Sugar Cream

Cheese Frosting
I have seen versions of this frosting online but
have never tried it because I pipe out 99% of my
frostings. With the addition of brown sugar, I
knew it would never get as stiff as I prefer for
piping, so I stick to my traditional recipe. The
beauty of this cake was that I could offer a
“rustic” design and spread this glorious frosting
out with no intention of piping. I am so glad I did!
The rich depth of flavor when paired with this
cake in like nothing I have ever tried. Save this
Brown Sugar Cream Cheese recipe for the next
time you make any carrot or spice cake!

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To make the carrots on the side of the cake I

made up a 1/2 batch of traditional whipped
buttercream. I tinted 1 cup green and the rest
orange. Put the green frosting in a pastry bag
fitted with a #233 tip, or a “grass tip”. Put the
orange frosting in a pastry bag fitted with a #104
tip. (this is a tear drop shaped tip) Using your
orange frosting and with the small end of the tip
facing away from the cake, start piping with a
small back and forth motion against the bottom
edge of the cake. Slowly move up and make the
back and forth motion a little wider as you move
up. Taper it in toward the top of the carrot and
then release pressure.

Now take your green frosting, apply pressure at

the top of the carrot then put up and release
quickly. Do this around the entire cake. I
repeated this on top with a bigger version of the
carrot.

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Tips for Easy Carrot Cake

You can leave out the pineapple if you want, but
I do recommend leaving it in. There is such a
small amount that it does not affect flavor
dramatically, but it does add moisture to this
cake.

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Feel free to play with the seasoning a bit! I only

added cinnamon, but you can also add in
nutmeg, cloves, allspice, etc.

Make sure that your cake is cooled before you

add the Brown Sugar Cream Cheese frosting.
Also, make sure the cream cheese frosting is set
before you add the carrot decoration. If you add
the carrots too soon they may slide down a bit
as the cream cheese frosting settles.

Freshly grated carrots are a must!

My best advice… make this for a crowd! This

Easy Carrot Cake recipe is SO good, you may
not be able to stop at just one piece!

Find my 100% from-scratch Carrot Cake Recipe

here.

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