Popular and Best Carrot Cake Recipe Ever || Ocean Recipes

The best Carrot Cake recipe is the moist and flavorful recipe that usually makes a large quantity of cake for you. Once you try this recipe you will be hounded to make this cake time and time again. Moreover, it’s my favorite recipe for carrot cake and It is 100% made from scratch, that is easy to make, versatile, best, and utterly delicious. This award-winning carrot cake recipe is one of our most popular recipes! Once you realize that how easy it is to make a carrot cake any time from scratch, you’ll want to make it over and over again in your life.

To make this moist carrot cake, you have to start by mixing up all the dry ingredients. One of the important things here is that when measuring out all the dry ingredients is to make sure to spoon and level your flour. In case, if you have a food scale, then you can also weigh all the ingredients of the best carrot cake recipe with pineapple to get an accurate measurement. However, for the wet ingredients, you have to use some oil, eggs, vanilla, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and applesauce. While, the particular amount of the oil and applesauce in this recipe adds the perfect amount of moisture, so you can end up with a moist cake that isn’t much oily.

Tips for the Best Carrot Cake Recipe:

• To make this cake finely shredded carrots offer you a perfectly uniform texture, cleaner slices, and no large visible chunks of carrots.
• You have to use the freshest carrots if possible for the best flavor.
• However, you have to precisely measure ingredients in case if you have a kitchen scale used for the most accuracy.
• Keep in mind that you don’t need to over-mix the batter after adding in flour and after adding in carrots. Otherwise, your cake can be spongy and may not rise as high as required.
• You should use cake strips to wrap around your cake pans if you have them for more even layers and a higher rise. 

Ingredients:

• Two cups (283g) all-purpose flour (scoop and level to measure)
• Two tsp. of baking powder
• One tsp. of the baking soda
• Half tsp. of salt
• Two tsp. of ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. of ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp. of ground ginger
• Four eggs
• 3/4 cup (175ml) of vegetable oil
• Half cup (130g) unsweetened applesauce
• One cup (200g) granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup (150g) of packed light brown sugar 
• Two tsp. of vanilla extract
• Three cups (348g) of finely grated carrots
• One cup chopped pecans

Method of Classic Carrot Cake Recipe:

Step #1

Firstly you have to preheat your oven to 350 degrees after that, butter two 9″ round cake pans, line with best parchment paper, butter parchment paper, dust parchment paper with flour, shake out the excess amount. 

Step #2

After that, in a simple mixing bowl, you have to whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger.

Step #3

Then in a large size mixing bowl by using an electric mixer you have to blend vegetable oil, applesauce, eggs, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla.

Step #4

Now you have to add all the dry ingredients and mix until combined very well. You have to mix in grated carrots just to evenly distribute. After that, divide the mixture evenly into two prepared cake pans.

Step #5

After that, bake in preheated oven for almost forty minutes until the toothpick inserted into the center comes out very clean.

Step #6

And then, remove it from the oven and allow cooling for almost ten minutes in the cake pan, and then running a knife around the edges of your cakes and inverting it into a wire rack to cool it completely. Lastly, frost cakes then finish with the best fully chopped pecans if using. You can also store the cake in an airtight container in your refrigerator.