It was our friend’s birthday and we managed to glean the fact that she loved carrot cake (especially with cream cheese frosting), so we gathered around in the middle of a blizzard to make this for her on the last day of spring break (amidst games of Big 2 and shoveling lots of food at me; my taste buds were very happy).
For the record, grating baby carrots by hand with a tiny grater sucks. ;_; The food kept me going though, haha. The recipe was adapted from allrecipes.
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients:
(Cake)
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups carrots, grated
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
(Cream Cheese Frosting)
- 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar + vanilla extract. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt + cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in walnuts. Pour into pan.
- Bake in oven for 40-50 minutes, or until it passes the toothpick test. Let cool.
- (Frosting) In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar + vanilla extract. Beat until mixture is smooth + creamy. Stir in chopped walnuts and frost the cooled cake.
This is about 1/3 of the food my friends fed me while we were making this. :O They are awesome.
This was part of our dinner. :O
Pasta with eggplant!
More 芥兰!
Birthday girl!
