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