Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Moist, candy, and evenly spiced, this carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is the meals of which candy tooth desires are made. 

Pioneer Lady Carrot Cake

For the longest time, years really, I used to be on a hunt for one of the best carrot cake recipe. Carrot cake is one in every of Sean’s favourite truffles and I attempted a number of truffles that had been good, however they simply didn’t measure as much as our expectations. We each have a tough time resisting carrot cake anytime it’s served, so the concept of creating the proper carrot cake at dwelling was irresistible.

Then I discovered Ree Drummond’s carrot cake recipe and let me inform you, this child measures up. I haven’t tried one other recipe since I made this one for the primary time over ten years in the past. I make it at the very least annually, typically extra typically than that.

This carrot cake is moist and candy and extremely flavorful. Traditional carrot cake typically consists of pecans within the frosting, so I’ve listed them under as non-obligatory. (I not often embrace nuts in my truffles and frostings, so I typically skip them when making a cake only for my household to take pleasure in.)

Easy Carrot Cake

It shouldn’t come as information to any of you that I’m not a cake decorator. Not even just a little bit. My sister and I baked this cake one time after I was visiting her and whereas the phrase “rustic” covers a mess of errors, it is perhaps pushing it right here.

While you’re spending time together with your sister, laughing at your errors is far more enjoyable than making an attempt to repair them.

So long as a cake is roofed in frosting, I’m glad.

I’ve tried to drive myself to care what a closing cake appears to be like like, however even for a fairly weblog publish, I’m simply not that lady. (You possibly can thank my sister Jenny for the truth that she added flowers to the cake the primary time I photographed this cake and managed to make it presentable.)

My favourite truffles are virtually at all times baked in sheet pans or flipped out of a bundt pan. Jenny and I doubled the recipe and made two generously sized truffles–a layered spherical cake and a bundt cake–to serve a ton of individuals.

The recipe as written under makes a cake that’s massive sufficient to supply dessert for a median household a couple of occasions over. I don’t advocate doubling it until you wish to have a LOT of cake left over otherwise you’re making a cake for a giant occasion. (Not that anybody complains about additional cake!)

Can You Freeze Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting?

That’s an emphatic YES, my buddy. So, in the event you’re as large a fan of carrot cake as my husband is, go for it and double the recipe.

Refrigerate the cake in a single day to ensure the frosting is about after which wrap both the entire cake or particular person slices hermetic in plastic wrap, adopted by aluminum foil, a zip-close bag, or an alternate container.

Greatest Cream Cheese Frosting for Carrot Cake

I can consider few cake and frosting mixtures extra excellent than carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The carrot and cinnamon taste within the cake is enhanced and heightened by the addition of creamy, candy cream cheese frosting.

There are a few methods to take pleasure in this cream cheese frosting. The primary methodology is to only unfold the thick frosting excessive of the cooled cake in no matter methodology you want.

While you frost your cake this fashion, every chunk will embrace a layer of moist carrot cake and one other layer of frosting.

Once I make this cake in a bundt pan, I normally flip the frosting right into a pourable glaze. By stirring heavy cream or complete milk into the cream cheese combination, you’ll create a thinner icing that’s excellent for pouring over an inverted bundt cake.

I like this methodology for topping my truffles because it requires only a few adorning expertise and any imperfections are simply hidden.

The frosting on this unimaginable carrot cake recipe is really top-of-the-line frostings I’ve tasted.

It has simply the correct amount of vanilla taste and powdered sugar combined in with the butter and cream cheese. I make this frosting even after I’m not making carrot cake; that’s how good it’s!

This cream cheese frosting can be scrumptious on cinnamon rolls, spice cakes, pumpkin cupcakes, and gingerbread recipes.

If you find yourself with any leftover frosting after you make this carrot cake, it retains properly within the fridge for a few weeks. (Or go forward and dig in with a spoon, I received’t inform.)

Traditional Carrot Cake Recipe

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease your pan completely with butter. (A sheet pan, a 9×13, a bundt pan or (2) 8″ rounds will all work properly.) Mix the sugar, oil, and eggs and beat till clean.
2. Whisk collectively the dry substances in a separate bowl. Slowly add to the moist and blend to mix. Add the carrots and blend once more.
3. Pour into the ready pan and bake till a toothpick inserted comes out with moist crumbs. A sheet cake needs to be carried out in about 25 minutes, a bundt cake will take nearer to 45 minutes. Cool the cake fully earlier than frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting for Carrot Cake

1. Beat the cream cheese and the butter collectively till properly mixed. Add the sugar and the vanilla and beat once more till clean. Stir within the pecans, if desired.
2. When the cake is totally cool, frost as desired. For those who choose a glaze over a spreadable frosting, step by step add cream or milk whereas stirring consistently till the frosting is the specified consistency. Invert the bundt cake over a big plate and pour the glaze excessive.

Traditional Carrot Cake

Dessert is a success each time I make this recipe. Whereas different carrot truffles I made prior to now turned out dense, dry, or too crumbly, this one seems moist and tender with each chunk.

I’ve had some excellent carrot truffles from bakeries too however I’ve to say this selfmade carrot cake recipe is one of the best I’ve tasted. It makes an excellent birthday dessert or after-dinner deal with. A slice of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is simply excellent to share with a buddy over a cup of espresso within the afternoon.

I like a great old school carrot cake with cream cheese frosting however I additionally get a kick out of different selfmade treats impressed by carrot cake. You may additionally take pleasure in these Carrot Cake Pancakes with Maple Cream Cheese Syrup and these Ginger Spice Carrot Cake Cookies.

To benefit from the richness of carrot cake taste in a nourishing hearty breakfast kind, you have to strive my Carrot Cake Oatmeal. It’s virtually pretty much as good as having cake for breakfast however even higher because you get to skip the inevitable sugar crash.

One other nice carrot cake for breakfast thought is that this recipe for Carrot Cake Muffin Tops with Cream Cheese Frosting by Shugary Sweets.

initially revealed 9/23/13 – recipe notes and pictures up to date 5/24/23

recipe barely tailored from and with because of The Pioneer Lady