Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

Oleh Cookin with Recipes November 20, 2022 Post a Comment

Easy Carrot Cake Recipe - A less-dense and wonderfully moist carrot cake with canned mandarin oranges rather than pineapple. A friend shared the recipe with me and I made it to celebrate the birth of my son (a birthday cake). It tastes best if you let it sit in the refrigerator overnight.

Servings: 12

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups white sugar

2 ½ teaspoons baking soda

2 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

2 cups shredded carrots

1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained

1 ¼ cups vegetable oil

3 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 teaspoon grated orange zest

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13x2-inch baking dish.

Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, ground cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg together in a bowl. Beat carrots, mandarin oranges, oil, eggs, vanilla extract, and orange zest into flour mixture with an electric mixer until batter is smooth, about 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared baking dish.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes.