Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting recipe.

This is a recipe i got from my mums old cookbook :)

You will need ;

The carrot cake

2 cups sugar

2 cups all purpose flour, plus more for pans (to flour the pan)

2 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon of salt (to taste)

11/2  cup of vegetable oil (olive oil, sunflower oil or others)

4 eggs

3 cups of grated carrots

1 cup of chopped pecans (optional)

* note ; preheat the oven to 350 degrees 

1.) Mix all the dry ingredients ; sugar, flour, baking soda, ground cinnamon, and salt. Mix well.

2.) Add vegetable oil, add eggs, one at a time, then mix well.

3.) Finally add the grated carrots and a cup of pecans, then mix well.

4.) Pour onto 2 prepared 3 9'' round baking pan with a ( greased and floured) baking sheet.

* note ; this recipe is for a double layer cake with a cream cheese frosting in the middle layer. So if u want to make a single layer cake, just use any size, 2 or 3 baking pans, depends on how thick u want it to be.

 Cream cheese frosting 
8 oz cream cheese

1/2 cup of butter
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
4 cups pwdered sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream

1.)  Use a mixer, mix all ingredients untill smooth * if its too thick, add water.

2.) Careflly stack the cake, and smoothe the frosting on top. Do it layer by layer.

3.) Sprinkle some chopped pecans on top. Aaand youre done and ready to serve! :D

This is my singled layer carrot cake :)

Happy trying lovelies :)

much love,

mylittlekitchen.