Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. Old-Fashioned Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting A pleasingly moist cake, this treat is the one I requested that my mom make each year for my birthday. It's dotted with sweet carrots and a hint of cinnamon. The fluffy buttery frosting is scrumptious with chopped walnuts stirred in.

Allow cake to cool and prepare cream cheese frosting. In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, powdered sugar, butter and vanilla. Cover cooled cake with frosting, slice and serve. You can cook Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

1. Prepare of Cake:.
2. It's 2 cups of AP flour.
3. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1 cup of melted butter.
7. Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
8. It's 4 of eggs.
9. You need 1 package of matchstick carrots, chopped (or 2 cups grated).
10. You need 8 oz of can crushed pineapple.
11. It's 1 cup of chopped walnuts.
12. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
13. Prepare of Frosting:.
14. Prepare 8 oz of cream cheese.
15. You need 1 of \2 cup softened butter.
16. Prepare 1 cup of confectioner sugar.
17. It's 2 tsp of vanilla.

Peel off the parchment paper and invert one cake layer onto a plate. Spread with a slightly rounded cup of the frosting. Top with the second cake layer, right side up. Spread the top and sides with.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting instructions

1. Preheat oven 350°.
2. Sift together dry ingredients.
3. Blend in oil, sugar and eggs.
4. Beat until well blended.
5. Mix in carrots, pineapple with juice, nuts and vanilla.
6. Pour into 2 greased 9" cake pans or a well greased bundt pan.
7. Bake 30-45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.
8. Cool completely before removing from pan.
9. Frosting:.
10. Beat butter and cream cheese until very well blended.
11. Add vanilla and mix thoroughly.
12. Add sugar in small increments, scraping sides and bottom of mixer frequently.
13. If you like a lot of frosting between layers you may want to double the recipe. A single recipe is perfect for a bundt.
14. Garnish with toasted chopped walnuts.

While the cake cools, make the cream cheese frosting. Combine the butter, cream cheese and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until smooth and creamy. Once all of the confectioners' sugar is added, beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. In a large bowl cream together cream cheese and butter. Add powdered sugar, one cup at a time mixing after each, until frosting is smooth and fluffy.