Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake is so delicious and easy to make!

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup olive oil
1/2 cup butter
4 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 cups grated carrots
1 cup walnuts (optional)

Ingredients of Frosting:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter softened 
• 8 oz cream cheese softened 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 cups powdered sugar 

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350F and prepare two 8-inch pans by lining the bottoms with parchment paper and lightly greasing and flouring the sides.
• In a large bowl, whisk together your flour, sugars, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
• Add your canola oil and melted butter and stir well (batter will be pretty stiff and thick at this point, I usually use an electric mixer or my stand mixer to combine everything nicely).
• Add eggs, one at a time, stirring well after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla extract.
• Stir in carrots and nuts (if using) until ingredients are well-combined.
• Evenly divide carrot cake batter into prepared baking pans and bake on 350F for 40 minutes (toothpick inserted in center should come out mostly clean with only few moist crumbs).
• Allow carrot cake to cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then run a knife around the edge and invert onto cooling rack to cool completely.
• Allow cake to cool completely before covering with cream cheese frosting.