Lisa's Southern Kitchen

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Cooking Tips:

What makes a carrot cake moist?

Add applesauce or pineapple to the cake helps it stay moist.

What’s the difference between spice cake and carrot cake?

Carrot cake is similar to spice cake but carrot cake have shredded carrots.

What’s different between boxed cake mix and homemade scratch cake?

The cake mix have typically taste flat, sugary and vaguely that leaves a lot of to be desired.

A homemade scratch cake is rich, buttery and moist.

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How To Make Carrot Cake:

Ingredients:

Cake:

• 2 cups Self Rising Flour

• 2 cups Sugar

• 3 cups Grated Carrots

• 1 cup Chopped Pecans

• 2 tsp. Ground Cinnamon

• 2 tsp. Vanilla Extract

• 4 Eggs

• 1 cup Vegetable Oil

Frosting:

• 1 cup Chopped Pecans

• 8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened

• 4 cups Confectioners’ Sugar

• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

• 1/4 cup Butter, softened.

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and greased two round cake pans with cooking spray.

In a bowl of stand mixer, add sugar, eggs and oil, vanilla extract, beat well. Then add in the flour, cinnamon, mix well. Now stir in carrots and pecans, mix until combined. Pour the cake batter into two round cake pans.

Bake for 45 minutes and let it cool for 10 minutes before frosting.

Frosting:

In a bowl of stand mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar and butter, vanilla extract until well combined. Add in the pecans.

Assemble:

On a cake stand, lay down cake layer on it and frost. Now add second cake lay and frost it.

Keep in the refrigerator until ready to serve.