Best Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Icing

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2/3 cup milk
• 3 medium carrots, grated
• 1/2 cup nuts, chopped
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/4 cup nuts, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar

Recipe

• 1 for cake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. grease a 9-inch round cake pan. dust with flour.
• 2 in bowl, mix together flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt.
• 3 in a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• 4 add eggs, 1 at a time.
• 5 beat flour mixture and milk into butter mixture.
• 6 stir in carrots and nuts.
• 7 pour into pan.
• 8 bake cake for 40 minutes.
• 9 let cake cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan.
• 10 for icing, beat butter and cream cheese.
• 11 beat in vanilla.
• 12 beat in sugar.
• 13 mix topping ingredients in separate bowl.
• 14 spread icing on cake when it is completely cooled.
• 15 sprinkle nut mixture on top of cake.