Best Golden Carrot Cake Recipes

GOLDEN CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour pans.
• Sift together, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
• In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, then add both sugars.
• Let stand until sugars dissolve, approximately 10 minutes.
• Stir in oil, carrots, applesauce, pineapple with juice, nuts, (and raisins if added).
• Stir in dry ingredients and beat until well blended, approximately 3 minutes.
• Turn into 3, greased and floured, 9-inch round cake pans, or one 13 x 9 x 12 inch square cake pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 35 to 45 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
• Cool in pans for approximately 10 minutes, then turn on to wire wracks until completely cooled before frosting.
• Frosting Preparations:.
• Combine butter, (margarine) cream cheese and vanilla in a large bowl,.
• beat until well blended.
• Add powdered sugar, gradually sifting into mixture.
• Beat at high speed.
• (If frosting is too thick, add a drop or two of milk to spreading consistency).
• Add food coloring, or frosting coloring to frosting if desired.
• Decorate with cute little carrots, with green toppings. Be creative!
• Hope you enjoy my variation of this classic cake!

GOLDEN, MOIST CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• PREPARATION: Arrange a shelf in the lower third of the oven and place a baking stone on it.
• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Spread nuts on a baking sheet, place in the oven on the stone, and roast for 10 to 12 minutes.
• While nuts are hot, stir in 2 tablespoons butter and 1/4 teaspoon salt; set aside.
• Spray 2 (8-inch) round cake pans (the 2-inch high kind) with nonstick cooking spray and line with a parchment circle.
• Spray very lightly on top of parchment, too.
• THE CAKE: In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and orange zest.
• Beat well at medium speed with an electric mixer.
• In another bowl, stir together whole eggs, egg yolks, and brown sugar.
• Then, add oil, vanilla, and orange juice, stirring to combine.
• Make a hole in the center of flour mixture and add egg mixture, a little at a time, stirring by hand.
• Add carrots and roasted nuts.
• Pour batter into prepared pans (spoon batter from one pan to the other until batter is divided equally).
• Drop pans, one at a time, onto the counter from a height of 4 inches to knock out large air bubbles.
• Place both pans in oven on stone.
• Bake for approximately 30 to 35 minutes, or until the center springs back when touched. Ideally, cake should not pull away from sides until it has just come out of oven. (The center temperature should read approximately 209° on an instant-read thermometer.).
• COOLING THE CAKE: Cool cake layers in pans on a cooling rack for approximately 10 minutes.
• Shake pan to loosen cake all around.
• Spray a cooling rack with nonstick cooking spray.
• Place rack, sprayed side down, on top of cake and invert.
• Let cool completely.
• FROSTING THE CAKE: When completely cool, slice each layer in half horizontally, creating 4 layers.
• Divide cream cheese icing in half; reserving one half to ice top and sides.
• Divide remaining half into thirds.
• Place one layer, cut side up, on a cake plate or serving dish and spread with one-third of icing.
• Place another layer on top of icing, cut side up, and spread with another third.
• Place third layer on top, cut side up, and spread with remaining third.
• Place top layer on, cut side down. Ice top and sides with reserved icing.

GOLDEN NUGGET CARROT CAKE - COLD SPRING TAVERN

Steps:

• Preheat to 350 and grease a 13x9 pan.
• Blend the oil and sugar together.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Gradually add dry ingredients to wet and mix well.
• Fold in grated carrots.
• (might be good with 1/2 c walnuts or raisins, if you like! ).
• Pour batter into pan and bake for 40 minutes or until done.
• Cool completely.
• Frosting:.
• Mix all ingredients and frost!

GOLDEN CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Combine all the dry ingredients and mix together. Stir in the oil until all the dry ingredients are wet. Beat the eggs slightly, then add the eggs and vanilla, at the same time,mix well. Add the pineapple, mix well. Add the carrots mix again, then the walnuts, mix again. Bake in preheated oven for approx 45 to 50 minutes. Until a toothpick comes out clean. Cream Cheese Icing: 1 C. Cream cheese softened at room temperature (do not use the tubs of presoftened spreadable cream cheese) 1/2 C. Butter (softened at room temperature) 1 1/2 Tsp. Vanilla 2 C. Sifted Icing sugar Cream together the butter and cream cheese, by hand or with a blender, until smooth. Add the vanilla, mix together. Then add the icing sugar, mix together. Spread over the cakes once they have cooled.

GOLDEN CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Stir together flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Set aside.2. Drain pineapple, reserving 2 tablespoons of pineapple juice for frosting.3. In large mixing bowl, beat together eggs, brown sugar, and oil. Stir in carrots, pineapple, walnuts, if desired, and KELLOGG'S Raisin Bran Cereal. Add dry ingredients, mixing until well combined. Pour into 9 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan coated with cooking spray.4. Bake at 350°F about 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting.5. To make frosting, combine pineapple juice and powdered sugar until smooth. Spread evenly over cake. Cool and store in refrigerator.