# Carrot Cake

This video shows how to prepare a two-layer carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.75 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 0.5 cup granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 tsp baking soda
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 0.5 tsp allspice
- 0.25 tsp ground clove
- 2 cups finely grated fresh carrot
- 0.75 cup walnuts
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 0.25 cup butter
- 3 cups icing sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract

## Instructions

1. Measure vegetable oil.
2. Add light brown sugar.
3. Add granulated sugar.
4. Add eggs and vanilla.
5. Whisk ingredients together.
6. Sift all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice and cloves.
7. Add carrots to flour mixture.
8. Add flour to wet mixture.
9. Pre-toast the walnuts.
10. Add walnuts to batter.
11. Pour batter into pans.
12. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes at 350F.
13. Cool in pan for half an hour, then turn out to cool completely.
14. Beat softened cream cheese and butter until smooth.
15. Add half of the icing sugar.
16. Mix to blend.
17. Add flavoring.
18. Add remaining icing sugar.
19. Frost cake.
20. Add toasted walnuts to the side.
21. Chill cake for a couple hours to set up the cream cheese frosting.

## Equipment

- Baking tray
- Measuring cups
- Mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Measuring spoons
- Sifter
- Spatula
- 9-inch pans
- Mixer
- Cake wheel
- Offset spatula
- Palette knife

## Tips

- Toast walnuts before using to make them crunchier and sweeter.
- Put cake on a board to easily move it around.
- For a non-gritty frosting, use lemon juice and vanilla extract to help dissolve the icing sugar.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gz0W84kEi8
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/b75ebc22-be57-4fc3-aa7e-3b1046e8752f
- Extracted: 2025-05-10

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