Directions below are for a 10" layer cake OR 36 cupcakes.
I similar to brand cupcakes because nosotros are "empty nesters" together with I tin dismiss but direct maintain a few at a fourth dimension out of the freezer, rather than a whole layer cake.
Sorry nearly the bad photo........I was inwards a hurry (as always).
FIVE STAR CARROT CAKE
4 cups grated carrots
1 loving cup chocolate-brown sugar
1 loving cup raisins
1 loving cup crushed pineapple (squeezed dry)
4 eggs
1 loving cup vegetable oil
1½ cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups flour
1½ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 loving cup chopped pecans
If y'all are making a layer cake, lightly spray 2 10" baking pans amongst vegetable spray, together with occupation the bottom amongst parchment paper, together with then spray again. See banker's complaint nearly baking pans at the terminate of this recipe.
If y'all are making cupcakes, it takes 36 cupcake papers. Preheat your oven to 350.
Mix shredded carrots together with chocolate-brown saccharide together with laid aside at room temperature for 1 hour. After 1 hour, stir inwards the raisins together with laid aside. The saccharide volition delineate a lot of liquid out of the carrots together with it volition all expect soupy.........ignore that together with DO NOT DRAIN!!!
Beat eggs until they are low-cal colored together with foamy (about a infinitesimal or thence at high speed), gradually trounce inwards the white sugar, vegetable crude together with vanilla. Stir inwards pineapple.
In some other bowl, mix flour, baking soda, tabular array salt together with cinnamon...mix well. Add this dry out mixture to the moisture mixture, nearly 1/2 loving cup at a time, making certain everything is moistened earlier y'all add together to a greater extent than flour.
Stir inwards the carrot-raisin mixture equally good equally the nuts.
Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes if y'all are baking 2 10” layers. Test for doneness past times inserting a dry out toothpick into the centre of the baked cake. If it comes out build clean when y'all direct maintain the toothpick out, the cake is done.
If y'all are making cupcakes, bake at 350° for 21-23 minutes. My criterion electrical oven takes 22 minutes. Cool completely together with frost amongst cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
(1) 8 ounce cream cheese (room temperature)
1/4 loving cup UNsalted butter (room temperature)
1½ teaspoons vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
Beat room temperature cream cheese together with room temperature Unsalted butter until it is sooth together with creamy. Add powdered saccharide (1 loving cup at a time) along amongst the vanilla. If the frosting seems thick, add together a tablespoon or thence of milk together with trounce again.
ENJOY !!!
Note nearly Cake Pans: I ALWAYS bake amongst low-cal colored aluminum pans. If y'all direct maintain nighttime pans (or drinking glass pans), y'all direct maintain to cut your oven temperature past times 25 degrees...because if y'all don't, the cake tin dismiss burn. I've never had that occupation when I ready amongst low-cal colored aluminum pans.
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