Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot cake is a cake or pie which contains carrots mixed into the batter. The carrot softens in the cooking process, and the cake usually has a soft, dense texture. The carrots themselves enhance the flavor, texture, and appearance of the cake.

Carrot cake closely resembles a quick bread in method of preparation (all the wet ingredients, such as the eggs and sugar, are mixed, all the dry ingredients are mixed, and the wet are then added to the dry) and final consistency (which is usually denser than a traditional cake and has a coarser crumb).

Carrot Cup Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

 

Many carrot cake recipes include optional ingredients, such as nuts, raisin, pineapple or coconut. The most common icing on carrot cake is a cream cheese icing (icing sugar, butter and cream cheese).

My version of carrot cake can be in cup cake form or normal round shape or square.