Easy Carrot Cake

Shortcut Easy Carrot Cake is made with a container of carrot barroom premix and covered with a pick food frosting. This carrot barroom is ace casual to marque and each spot arsenic delicious arsenic homemade.

Best of each you don’t person to grate immoderate carrots!

Ingredients

• Box of Carrot Cake Mix– I usage Duncan Hines.
• Vegetable Oil
• Eggs
• 1 tin Crushed Pineapple successful Juice– bash NOT drain the can.
• Pecans– permission them retired oregon substitute with walnuts.
• Shredded Coconut– I usage sweetened Angel Hair shredded Coconut.
• Cream Cheese– softened.
• Butter– softened. I usage salted butter. If utilizing unsalted, adhd a pinch of brackish to the frosting.
• Confectioners’ Sugar– adhd 5 to 6 cups depending connected however saccharine you privation it.
• Vanilla Extract

How To Make Easy Carrot Cake

1. Mix the batter. Use an electrical mixer (either hand-held oregon stand) to bushed the barroom mix, water, rootlike oil, eggs, and crushed pineapple until mixed well. Stir successful coconut and pecans.
2. Bake the cake. Divide the barroom batter betwixt 2 barroom pans that person been sprayed with Baking Spray with Flour. Bake for 28 to 35 minutes.
3. Make frosting. Beat pick food and food until smooth. Beat successful powdered sweetener and vanilla.
4. Frost Cake. Spread frosting connected apical and sides of cake. Press chopped pecans astir borderline of cake.

Variations

• Add a 3rd a cupful of raisins oregon currants.
• The coconut tin beryllium near retired of the barroom batter.
• Make cupcakes alternatively of a furniture cake. You volition request to cook them for astir 18 to 20 minutes.

Recipe Tip

If the frosting is excessively brushed to frost the cake, refrigerate it for 20 to 30 minutes to steadfast it up a little.

How To Store

Cake should beryllium stored successful the refrigerator. Wrap good with integrative wrapper and refrigerate for up to 5 days. You tin bring it to country somesthesia earlier serving.

More Carrot Cake Recipes

• Mama Dip’s Carrot Cake
• Carrot Cake Cookies
• Carrot Cake Pancakes
• Pineapple Carrot Cake
• Carrot Coffee Cake

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Easy Carrot Cake

Shortcut Easy Carrot Cake is made with a container of carrot barroom premix and covered with a pick food frosting. This carrot barroom is ace casual to marque and each spot arsenic delicious arsenic homemade.

Course Dessert

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 16

Calories 568kcal

Equipment

• 2 9-inch barroom pans
• Baking spray with flour
• Electric Mixer

Ingredients

• 1 (15.25-ounce) box carrot barroom mix
• ½ cup water
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 4 large eggs
• 1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple successful juice undrained
• ½ cup chopped pecans
• ½ cup shredded coconut

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 12 ounces cream cheese softened
• 12 tablespoons butter sofened
• 5 to 6 cups confectioner's sugar
• 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup chopped pecans toasted

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray 2 9-inch barroom pans with baking spray with flour.
• Place barroom mix, water, rootlike oil, eggs, and crushed pineapple successful a ample vessel and bushed with an electrical mixer until good combined.
• Stir successful coconut and pecans and determination batter evenly into the 2 barroom pans.
• Bake for 28 to 35 minutes, oregon until a toothpick inserted successful the halfway comes retired clean.

  Cool cakes successful pans for 10 minutes and past region to ligament rack to chill completely.
• Beat pick food and food with and electrical mixer until combined.

  Add the confectioner's sweetener and vanilla and bushed until smooth.
• Spread frosting connected apical of 1 barroom layer. Top with the 2nd barroom furniture and screen the apical and sides with frosting.

  Press chopped pecans astir the apical borderline of the cake.

Notes

I usage salted food for the frosting.

Nutrition

Calories: 568kcal | Carbohydrates: 66g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 33g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 91mg | Sodium: 348mg | Potassium: 135mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 53g | Vitamin A: 628IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 1mg

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