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Kristy Still
Old Fashioned Carrot Cake
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
American
Make this delicious Old Fashioned Carrot Cake that can easily be made gluten-free too!
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Ingredients
Cake
1 ½
Cups
Sugar
1
Cup
Oil
2 ½
Tbsp
Hot Water
3
Eggs
1
Tsp
Baking Soda
1 ½
Cups
Flour or Gluten Free All Purpose Flour
1
Tsp
Cinnamon
1
Tsp
Baking Powder
¼
Tsp
Nutmeg
Pinch
of Salt
1
Cup
Grated Carrots
1
Cup
Black Walnuts
Icing
1
Stick Unsalted Butter
Softened
1
Package Cream Cheese
Softened
1
Tsp
Vanilla
3 ½
Cups
Powdered Sugar
1
Cup
Black Walnuts
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350* and grease two 9 inch round cake pans.
Mix the cake ingredients in order, stopping after the carrots; a stand mixer works best for mixing this.
Fold in the black walnuts.
Pour ½ the batter in one cake pan and the rest in the other.
Bake in the oven on 350* for 35 minutes or until poked in the center with a toothpick, the toothpick comes out clean.
Set the cakes aside for 1-2 hours to let them cool completely.
While the cakes are cooling, prepare the icing; begin by creaming together the butter and cream cheese.
Add in the vanilla and powdered sugar, whisking on high with a stand mixer until the icing is formed.
Fold in the black walnuts.
Release one of the cakes from the cake pan, and then ice the top of it with a portion of the icing.
Place the second cake on top and then continue icing the entire cake.
This can be chilled in the fridge and served cold or served at room temperature.
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