This is THE BEST from scratch carrot cake recipe, made with chopped walnuts, grated carrots and covered with the most divine homemade cream cheese frosting. You will never find another recipe better than this carrot cake recipe.

Homemade Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Every year my oldest son asks for a carrot cake for his birthday. It's kind of funny because he doesn't really like cake all that much, but he does like my carrot cake. The real reason he asks for this cake is because he shares a birthday with his grandma (my mom, how cool is that!) and he knows that it's her favorite cake.

If you are looking for a homemade carrot cake, you came to the right place. No other recipe will beat this one!

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🍽 Equipment
🥕 Ingredients
🔪 Instructions
📖 Recipe
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🍽 Equipment

I do highly recommend having a food processor handy. Using the grating attachment for the carrots in this recipe will save your life... and your whole day! Down below you can check out the food processor I love. These things last FOREVER! My mom has one that was passed down to her from her mom... it has to be about 30 years old and it still works like new.

🥕 Ingredients

The ingredients for homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting are:

all-purpose flower
sugar
baking soda
cinnamon
carrots
vegetable oil
eggs
walnuts
cream cheese
butter vanilla
powdered sugar

🔪 Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 ℉ and butter and flour 2- 9" cake pans.

Get out the grater attachment and grate the carrots.

Sift all of the dry ingredients together. With an electric mixer, add oil and eggs, one at a time. Add the peeled and grated carrots and mix until combined.

Fold in the chopped walnuts and pour the batter into the floured cake pans.

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Bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

For the frosting, I recommend a good homemade cream cheese frosting. If you want somethin a little less tangy or lighter, try out my recipe for mascarpone frosting.

Now for this frosting recipe, take room temperature cream cheese and butter. Cream them together with an electric mixer add vanilla and powdered sugar and mix well.

When the cakes are completely cooled, removed the first one onto a platter and frost the top with some of the cream cheese frosting. Add the second cake on top of the frosting. Now frost the whole cake, top and sides.

carrot cake from scratch with homemade cream cheese frosting

Refrigerate until ready to serve, enjoy!

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📖 Recipe

The BEST Homemade Carrot Cake

Name: The BEST Homemade Carrot Cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 35 min
Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour; 2 cups sugar; 2 teas baking soda; 2 teas cinnamon; 1 ½ cup vegetable oil; 4 eggs; 3 cups grated carrots; 1 cup walnuts (chopped); 1 8 oz package cream cheese; 1 stick butter; 1 teas vanilla; 4- 4 ½ cups powdered sugar (or 1 lb.)

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Prep Time 30

Cook Time 35

Ingredients

For the Cake

2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
2 teas baking soda
2 teas cinnamon
1 ½ cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
3 cups grated carrots
1 cup walnuts chopped

For the Cream Cheese Frosting

1 8 oz package cream cheese
1 stick butter
1 teas vanilla
4- 4 ½ cups powdered sugar or 1 lb.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F
Grate the carrots using a box grater or a grater attachment on a food processor for more ease
combine dry ingredients
With an electric mixer, mix in oil and eggs, one at a time until well combined
Mix in carrots
Fold in chopped walnuts
Pour into 2 greased and floured 9" baking pans
Bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean

Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream room temperature butter and cream cheese and vanilla together until well combined
Add in the powdered sugar and beat until combined
When the cakes are completely cooled, frost the bottom layer first
Add the 2nd cake on top and frost the top and the sides. Refrigerate cake

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This is by far the BEST recipe for homemade carrot cake from scratch! The carrot cake recipe with walnuts is perfectly moist and frosted with amazing cream cheese frosting from scratch also. This is the perfect spring dessert, perfect for any party or Easter brunch. I use walnuts in it but feel free to add raisins or to make it as cupcakes! -APinchOfAdventure