Recipe: Perfect Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting

Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting. For frosting, in another large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Pipe twelve carrots on top of cake, so each slice will have a carrot. The BEST Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting.

For the frosting, blend the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla until smooth. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar until smooth. I love cream cheese frosting and carrot cake was always my favorite cake for my birthdays growing up! You can have Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting

1. Prepare 3 cup of grated carrots.
2. You need 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
3. You need 2 cup of white sugar.
4. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
5. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
8. You need 4 of large eggs.
9. Prepare 1 cup of cooking oil.
10. Prepare 1/2 can of pineapple crushed with the juice.
11. It's 3/4 cup of chopped pecans.
12. You need 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla.
13. Prepare 2 tbsp of cornstarch.
14. Prepare of for cream cheese frosting.
15. You need 1 packages of cream cheese.
16. It's 2 cup of icing sugar.
17. It's 1/2 cup of butter softened.
18. Prepare 2 tsp of fresh lemon juice / vanilla extract.

I am definitely going to make these for an upcoming meeting happening at a. Fluffy cream cheese frosting makes the ultimate topper for an ultramoist, classic carrot cake. My husband who is a huge fan of the Magnolia carrot cake loved this one and said it was the best carrot cake he had. There's a reason I've called this the The Ultimate Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting: it's extra moist and tender and flavored with the perfect blend of spices.

Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour pan..
2. In large bowl combine grated carrots, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, pecan, and cinnamon..
3. Mix eggs for a minute, pour sugar in, pineapple crushed, vanilla, and carrots mixed. Spoon batter into prepared pan..
4. Baked in the preheated oven for 40 to 60 mnt, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean..
5. To make frosting : combine cream cheese, and butter mix well. Add icing sugar, and lemon into the bowl, beat until smooth..

It's then topped with a smooth and creamy whipped cream cheese frosting. To prepare frosting, beat together cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread frosting over top of cake. The cake was super moist and had just the right amount of sweetness to it. For the frosting, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth.