Carrot Cake Recipe
Cake Ingredients:
8 Eggs (Room Temp)
1 ½ Cups Vegetable Oil
795 g Sugar
511 g All Purpose Flour
907 g Shredded Carrots
141 g Pecans
141 g Raisins
Cream Cheese Frosting:
2 pounds cream cheese (room temperature)
½ tsp salt
½-1 cup maple syrup to taste
Mix cream cheese and salt with a paddle attachment. Add the maple syrup slowly to desired sweetness. To achieve your desired consistency, refrigerate for half an hour, then mix again.
Supplies:
Rubber Spatula
Mixer OR
Wooden Spoon and Whisk
Parchment Paper
3 9” Pans
Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare the pans by adding canola oil and parchment paper cut to size.
- Beat eggs until frothy. Use paddle attachment or whisk if you don’t have a mixer.
- Add sugar and salt to the egg mixture. Allow it to mix until the sugar is mostly dissolved. If using a mixer, be sure to scrape down the sides to fully incorporate.
- Incorporate dry ingredients: purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon, with a whisk.
- Add the dry ingredients to the mixer in three parts. Switch to a wooden spoon at this point, if you are mixing by hand.
- Incorporate the carrots, pecans, and raisins.
- Distribute the cake batter evenly amongst the three pans.
- Bake on 350 for about 35 minutes, or until GBD (Golden, brown, and delicious).