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Spiced Carrot Cake with Thick Cream Cheese Frosting

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Bake a moist spiced carrot cake with the best spices for carrot cake ratio and thick cream cheese frosting. The perfect dessert recipe!
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Servings: 1
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American, British
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 21/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 Teaspoons salt
  • 2 Teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 Teaspoons cinnamon
  • 4 cups grated carrots (not shredded carrots, grated carrots)
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts, walnuts or pecans are very good
Cream Cheese Frosting
  • I always double the frosting ingredients, the recipe below is a single batch
  • one 8 ounce package cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
  • 1 Teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup confectioners sugar

Method
 

  1. Combine the sugar, oil, and eggs in a large bowl and beat at medium speed for 3 to 5 minutes until the mixture is very creamy.

Notes

Grating Texture: I cannot stress enough how important it is to use a fine grate for your carrots.
When I first made this,
I tried thick shreds and the texture was all wrong: