Carrot Cake

Ok, so a couple of post back I told you all that I can NOT decorate cakes! I don't know why, I can picture it in my head but what ends up happening is NO WHERE close BUT, with that being said, the cake was amazing! I got the recipe from the sister of one of the football players on my son's team. The frosting I found on Pinterest (link by the directions!)

This is the first time I've tried to take pictures through the whole process of baking something (I think I got it all but we'll see what comes off the camera!)

All of the ingredients together

Action shot of sugar & oil beating together

I always do one egg at a time

(I thought this was a pretty cool shot of the egg going in)

Beat this well to a nice light color

While that is beating & it takes a minute or two,

get your dry ingredients together. I always give the dry ingredients a stir together.

Mix the dry in the wet until just combined

Now the directions said to mix carrots in by hand. I ignored the directions and just gave it a couple of slow turns with the mixer then a little bit by hand. Guess I felt like being a rebel lazy.

Pour the batter into a greased & floured pan ~ in the oven it goes

Here is the carrot cake when it comes out! Looks hard around the edges but it's a really soft yet dense & moist cake!

 

Phew that's a lot of pictures ... just a couple more.

 

I made cream cheese frosting because that's what goes on carrot cake right? Well I had a back up (there on the left) just in case ... I haven't had much any luck with homemade frosting (probably why I stick mostly with cookies!) I let my son be the judge of what I should use ~ I mean it is our Easter dessert and we had a houseful of people.  I was surprised, shocked really that he picked the homemade frosting!

 That I found here: BubbleCrumb's Best Cream Cheese Frosting via Pinterest

 

I found the cute marshmallow carrots at Wal-mart

Here is my horrendous decorating job ~ but oh boy did it taste GOOOOOOD

There you have it couple of easy steps and a delicious carrot cake!

 

Recipe:

1 ½ cups of vegetable oil

2 cups sugar

4 eggs

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking power

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

3 cups peeled and grated carrots

 

 

Blend sugar & oil. Than add eggs and beat.

Mix the dry ingredients and than add to the above

Hand mix in your carrots

Grease & flour 13x9 pan

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean

 

(thank you to my niece KaLeigh for this picture!)