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Carrot Cake

5 from 7 votes
Moist cake made with whole wheat and pastry flour
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 18
Course: Dessert

Ingredients
  

Carrot Cake
  • 1 Cup Olive Oil
  • 1 Cup Light Brown Sugar
  • 1 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
  • 4 Eggs
  • 3 Tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 Cup Organic Pastry Flour
  • 1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
  • 3 Tsp Cinnamon
  • 2 Tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 Tsp Baking Soda
  • 1/2 Tsp Sea Salt
  • 1/4 Tsp Nutmeg
  • 3 Cups Grated Carrots firmly packed
  • 8 ounce Can Crushed Pineapple
  • 1 Cup Chopped Walnuts
Cream Cheese Frosting
  • 3/4 Cup Butter Softened
  • 12 Ounces Cream Cheese
  • 4-5 Cups Powdered Sugar depending on how sweet you like your frosting
  • 1.5 Tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 Tsp Sea Salt
  • 1 Cup Chopped Walnuts

Method
 

Carrot Cake
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. Create wax paper circles
  3. Grease 2 8-inch cake pans with olive oil and line with wax paper circles and grease again
  4. Blend oil, sugars and eggs in the Kitchen-Aid mixing bowl
  5. Blend in vanilla
  6. In separate bowl, combine flours, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg
  7. Mix dry ingredients into liquid ingredients and beat on 2-3 speed until throughly mixed
  8. Stir in carrots, pineapple (with juices) and walnuts
  9. Pour into pans and bake for 35 minutes (test cake with toothpick)
Cream Cheese Frosting
  1. Whip butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla extract
  2. Move the cake to a cake board, cake turntable or cake plate
  3. Place some frosting on the top of the first layer and then gently place the second layer over the first
  4. Frost the outside of the cake
  5. Place the walnuts on the outside of the cake and use wax paper to gently press against the side
  6. Refrigerate the cake and gently press the cake with wax paper again
  7. Use a star tip #21 to add a shell border and pipe carrots with orange frosting with tip #12 and pipe green string tops with tip #233
  8. Store cake in airtight cake/cupcake carrier