Best Carrot Cake Ever

Best Carrot Cake Ever

from allrecipes.com
Dessert
65 min
457 kcal / serving

The best carrot cake recipe uses grated carrots, crushed pineapple, and juicy raisins to create the most deliciously moist and tender cake ever!

Ingredients

  • 6 cupsgrated carrots
  • 1 cupbrown sugar
  • 1 cupraisins
  • 4eggs
  • 1 ½ cupswhite sugar
  • 1 cupvegetable oil
  • 2 teaspoonsvanilla extract
  • 1 cupcrushed pineapple, drained
  • 3 cupsall-purpose flour
  • 4 teaspoonsground cinnamon
  • 1 ½ teaspoonsbaking soda
  • 1 teaspoonsalt
  • 1 cupchopped walnuts

Directions

  1. 1

    Gather all ingredients.

  2. 2

    Combine grated carrots and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Let sit for 1 hour, then stir in raisins.

  3. 3

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 10-inch round cake pans. Beat eggs in a large bowl until lighter in color.

  4. 4

    Gradually beat in white sugar, oil, and vanilla. Stir in pineapple.

  5. 5

    Combine flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl, then stir into egg mixture until absorbed.

  6. 6

    Stir in carrot mixture and walnuts. Pour evenly into the prepared cake pans.

  7. 7

    Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes.

  8. 8

    Cool for 10 minutes before removing cake from the pans; let cool completely.