Easter is right around the corner, and It wouldn’t be right if I didn’t share a recipe for my Ultimate Carrot Cake! I’m one of those people who love a nice slice of carrot cake with lots of cream cheese frosting. I’m also one of those carrot cake lovers that love my cake full loaded. What do I mean? I mean, I love it ALL in my carrot cake. Please don’t serve me a piece of cake with carrots, and spice and think it’s all nice. I need the pineapple, the raisins, and the coconut too! That’s just how “I” like it. If you’re one of those people who don’t like the extra ingredients, by all means, leave it out. However, I highly suggest that you don’t try to substitute any of the other ingredients.
This recipe yields 2 9 inch round cakes!
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The Ultimate Carrot Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Carrot Cake batter
- 2 cups shredded carrots
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- 1/3 cup crushed pineapple
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 3/4 vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp baking powder
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup butter
- 4 cups confectioners sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- In a large bowl add the eggs, buttermilk,oil, and sugar. Mix the ingredients
- In a separate bowl, add the flour, salt, baking powder, and cinnamon. Sift the ingredients.
- Slowly add the flour mixture with the egg mixture, and mix.
- In a separate bowl add the shredded carrots, raisins, coconut, and pineapple. Mix.
- Add the carrot mixture into the cake batter, and fold in.
- Pour the batter into two 9 inch pan. Be sure to grease and flour them (no need to flour a nonstick pan).
- Bake for 40 minutes on 350.
Making the Frosting
- Cream the cream cheese and butter together.
- Add the confectioners sugar, and vanilla.
- Mix until smooth
Your buttermilk pound cake was simply PERFECT!!!!! I made it Saturday nite.It was done at exactly 65 minutes. It was amazing!! It was amazing!! It was even better,cold (from fridge)the next day!!!! Honestly,i have had my share of cakes,but this was OUTSTANDING!!!!! Big thank you!!!! CK
Thank you! I’m glad that you liked it!
I definitely plan on making this. Do you have a recipe for the cream cheese frosting?
Hi Matt! I just included the cream cheese frosting to this recipe 🙂
This cake was so good
I’m glad that you liked it!
I love pecan in my carrot cake, how can I incorporate pecan in this recipe?
Add the pecans when you add in the raisins, coconut, and etc 🙂
Yumm
My first time ever making a carrot cake. This recipe was simple and very delicious.
Hi Rosie! You didn’t put the amount of salt needed! How much??
Hi, I Love your recipe but here in asia we have problems to buy buttermilk, can you please suggest any substitution for Buttermilk?Thank you.
Hi Gretchen! Add 1 tbsp of lemon juice to 1 cup of milk. That could substitute 1 cup of buttermilk 🙂
Thank you so much Rosie, now I can try to bake this yummy recipe of yours 🙂
Hi Rosie ,would like to leave out raisins but how much pecans do you suggest
Hi Cassie. Try 1/4 cup of crushed pecans.
If i wanted to omit the raisins and pineapples, would that hurt the receipe? Or does the pineapple help with the cake’s moist texture?
In my opinion, the pineapple adds a lot to this recipe. Lots of moisture. You can leave the raisin out though.
Can cake flour be used instead of AP flour or will it give a different texture to the cake?
You’ll have to use more cake flour. It won’t be the same measurements.
When using the pineapple do I leave in the juice or drain the juice
You want to drain the juice 😀
Omg omg omg. My very first time doing a carrot cake and was it selfish of me not to wanna share it once done ? I seriously had to make a second cake to share for family dinner party. Thanks so much for sharing your secrets.
Ashlie
Thanks so much for trying Ashlie
So it may be weird but I’m a baker myself on my way to professionally… anyways I made this for my fur Baby 5th birthday minus raisins he had a ball so thank hun.. do you have a YouTube channel or anything
Hi Rosie
Do you drain the crushed pineapple or use the pineapple and the juice?
Drain it 🙂
I’m stuck halfway through setting up my ingredients. The salt measurement is missing! 🙁
1/2 tsp
9/24/2020.. made this cake… came out wonderfully! As always thanks for the amazing dishes….
Made this recently for a friend who loves carrot cake and this one was hit. Not too sweet, and there are no walnuts which I liked about this recipe! Thanks so much for all your delicious recipes!
Is it 1 tablespoon of vanilla mixed in with the egg mixture? Thanks.
Hi Janice. It’s 1 tbsp.
Great recipe! Turned out as pictured. Really moist too!!!
This cake was soooo good. My first time without using cake mix.