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Super Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

Easy carrot cake recipe you'll love
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Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Wheat flour (or all purpose) Spoon and leveled
  • 2 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon Ground Ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 3/4 cup Vegetable Oil
  • 4 large Eggs Room temperature
  • 2/3 cup Light Brown Sugar
  • 1/4 cup Granulated Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Natural Unsweetened yoghurt
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 3 cups Grated Carrots Lightly packed, approx. 2 or 3 large carrots
  • 1/4 cups Chopped Almonds optional
  • 1/4 cups Chopped Cashew Nuts optional

Equipment

  • Hand Whisk
  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Oven

Method
 

  1. Preheat Oven 350F. Grease baking pan with butter and dust with flour. Pan size: two small pans or 1 large springform pan
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the: flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt until well combined. Set aside
  3. In another bowl, whisk together: oil, eggs, brown sugar, granulated sugar, yoghurt and vanilla extract until fully combined.
  4. Add grated carrots and nuts into wet ingredients and mix (do not over mix)
  5. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix with a whisk or spatula. Take care not to over mix
  6. Pour batter into pan(s) and bake until the top of cake is set and a tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean. This should take about 30 - 45mins
  7. Remove and allow to cool. Cut into desired size and ENJOY!

Notes

Once I place the pans into the oven, I usually reduce the temperature (slightly). Just to avoid it from burning before it's cooked thoroughly. 
Original recipe had 1 and 1/2 cups of light brown sugar and 1/2 cups of granulated sugar.
I made some modifications to the sugar measurement as I'm not a fan of  'sweeet cakes'. 
Almonds and cashew nuts do not have to be finely chopped. I chopped one (almond/cashew nut) into two small pieces.
Find the original recipe here. Have fun!