Baking With Bitty

Round Carrot Cake

picture of round carrot cake

Ingredients

Recipe

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9 inch round baking pans (3) with cooking spray and dust with flour.
  2. Mix sugar, oil, and eggs in an electric mixer until smooth.
  3. Mix flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
    Add the dry mixture to the egg mixture and combine with an electric mixer.
  4. Combine raisins, carrots, and brown sugar in bowl. Let sit for 10 to 15 minutes.
  5. After raisin mixture has sat for 15 minutes, slowly add it to the cake batter.
  6. Pour batter into cake pans and place on the middle rack of the oven. Bakes for 50 minutes.
  7. Let the cake cool before icing or the icing will melt and ruin the cake.

Icing

  1. In an electric mixer on medium to slow speed, combine sugar, butter, eggs, and cream cheese. Stir in walnuts if wanted.
  2. Spread onto cake when cold.
Adapted from Paula Deen's Carrot Cake recipe from "Paula Deen Celebrates"Deen, P. (2006). Paula deen celebrates!. New York: Simon and Schuster.

All decorative icings used are a royal icing

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