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Best Carrot Cake Recipe

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Cream Cheese Frosting (for Carrot Cake)
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups all-purp flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsps ground cinnamon
3 large eggs
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups grated carrot
1 (8-oz) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 3-1/2 oz can flaked coconut
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Buttermilk glaze
Cream Cheese frosting
Directions:
Directions:
Line 3 9-inch round cake pans with wax paper; slightly grease and flour wax paper. Set pans aside.

Stir together first 4 ingredients.

Beat eggs and next 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Add flour mixture, beat at low speed until blended. Fold in carrot and next 3 ingredients. Pour batter into prepared cake pans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Drizzle Buttermilk glaze evenly over layers; cool in pans on wire racks 15 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely on racks. Spread Creem Cheese frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.

 

 

 

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