Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot cake with applesauce gets rave reviews. With cream cheese frosting, the cake is perfect for your Easter celebration or any time in between. It has the perfect amount of spices and it's truly the best carrot cake recipe.
Servings: 20 pieces
Calories: 325kcal
Ingredients
Cake
- 4 eggs beaten
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cups brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
- 3 cups carrots grated
Frosting
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 8 oz. cream cheese softened
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350-degrees.
- Grease a 9" x 13"
Carrot Cake
- Add the eggs to a large bowl and beat them.
- Add the vegetable oil, applesauce, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and the spices to a large bowl. Mix together.
- Add the carrots and fold into the mixture.
- Pour into the casserole dish and bake for 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Cool for approximately 20 minutes.
- Frosting
- Add the softened cream cheese and butter to a medium-sized bowl. Mix together.
- Add the vanilla and powdered sugar and mix together.
- Spread over the cake.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1piece | Calories: 325kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 55mg | Sodium: 318mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 32g