Photo: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing Recipe
Ingredients
Cake:
- 1 cup unsalted butter, plus 1 tablespoon for cake pan
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups grated carrot
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus 2 tablespoons for cake pan
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup hot water
- 10 ounces finely chopped fresh pineapple, or tinned (well drained)
Icing:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 pound cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Special equipment: an electric mixer and 2 (9-inch) cake pans
Directions
For the cake: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
In an electric mixer cream together 1 cup butter, sugar, and cinnamon until smooth and fluffy. Beat in the eggs 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition. Fold in the grated carrot. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix 1/2 of the flour into the butter mixture, then add 1/2 the water, mix well. Mix in the remaining flour and water. Fold in the pineapple.
Grease 2 (9-inch) cake pans with the remaining butter and dust with the remaining flour.
Divide the batter evenly between the 2 cake pans. Bake for 35 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes then remove from the pan and cool completely.
For the icing: Cream together the butter and cream cheese until smooth.Whip in the icing sugar and lemon juice.
Slice both cooled cakes into 2 layers. Spread the icing in between the layers as you stack them up. Ice the top and sides of the cake to finish.
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By debi10256
on February 15, 2011
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Made this one 2 weeks ago OMG fantastic, My mother in law doesn't like carrot cake but this one she loved!!!!! Side note: Add 1 cup chopped walnuts and 2 shots of dark rum just to raise the bar.
Fabulous
By sgstewart_8552993
Waldorf, MD
on May 13, 2010
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I only made the icing. It was delicious, easy to make, creamy and easily spread over an entire 2 layer cake.
By hedgehogcharmer...
Traverse, 62
on February 09, 2010
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The lemon flavored frosting was delectable--though I am a sucker for cream cheese frosting. The cake was a bit dry, but I left out the 4 layers of icing and just went with one. Otherwise, the cake was perfect--including the pinneaple, which I don't normally enjoy.
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