Carrot Cake With Baby Food Recipe 375 Recipes

THE BEST CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease and flour three 8-inch round cake pans.
• In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients for the cake. Mix well with a hand-held mixer. Divide the batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
• Allow cakes to cool for 5 minutes in the pans and then remove from pans and cool completely.
• Once the cakes have cooled, frost with Cream Cheese Frosting. Garnish cake with chopped pecans, if desired.
• In a bowl, combine cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla.
• Mix with a hand-held mixer until light and fluffy.

CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease the bottom of three 9-inch round cake pans with cooking spray, line with rounds of parchment paper and coat the paper with cooking spray.
• Make the cake: With an electric mixer, beat the granulated sugar, vegetable oil, eggs and vanilla. Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the sugar mixture. Add the walnuts, coconut, carrot puree and pineapple and beat until smooth. Divide the batter evenly among the prepared pans.
• Bake the layers until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Let the layers cool in the pans for about 5 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of each pan and turn the layers out onto wire racks that have been coated with cooking spray. Let the layers cool completely before frosting.
• Make the frosting: Combine the cream cheese and butter in an electric mixer and beat until smooth. Slowly add the confectioners' sugar and continue beating until fully combined. Add the vanilla.
• Slice each cake layer horizontally in half using a serrated knife. Place 1 layer on a cake plate and frost with 1/2 cup frosting. Continue stacking the remaining layers, using about 1/2 cup frosting between each layer. Frost the sides and top of the cake with the remaining frosting. Press the chopped walnuts into the sides of the cake. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

PINEAPPLE CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Add the oil, eggs and baby food; mix on low speed until well blended. Stir in pineapple and nuts. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , For frosting, in a bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Beat in vanilla and confectioners' sugar until mixture reaches spreading consistency. Spread between layers and over top and sides of cake. Garnish with nuts and blossoms if desired. Store in the refrigerator.

MUM'S BABY FOOD CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Mix eggs, sugar and oil together. Sift together and add dry ingredients to wet mix, then vanilla. Fold in carrots.
• 2. Bake in preheated 350° oven in a lightly greased and floured 9 x 13 pan for 40 to 45 minutes.
• 3. Cool completely before frosting with your favourite such as cream cheese, butter cream or simple french vanilla frostings. I use canned frostings for the very sporadic times I bake cakes. Mum would make her icing from scratch.

"BIRTHDAY" CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING AND COINTREAU CARROTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Butter a jelly roll pan and line with parchment. Set aside.
• Take the carrots and chop into large pieces, then mince in a food processor until you have a fine texture. Drain pineapple and finely chop walnuts. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl add flour, baking soda, baking powder and spices together. In a separate bowl mix buttermilk, molasses, eggs, vegetable oil and dark brown sugar together.
• Now combine wet and dry ingredients together to make a batter then fold in the carrots, pineapple and walnuts. Pour into the prepared pan and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until cake is set and springs back when gently pressed in the middle. Remove the pan from the oven and allow cake to cool on a rack while you prepare the frosting and cointreau carrots (recipes below). Once the cake has cooled, cut into three rectangles by cutting the cake lengthwise twice. Stack the cake up into three tiers with cream cheese frosting in between each layer. Frost the outside of the entire finished cake - smoothing off the edges and corners (an offset spatula works well). Top with Cointreau carrot rounds and drizzle a little of the syrup on top as well.
• Using a kitchen mixer, combine cream cheese and butter until blended and you have a smooth, light texture. Add the vanilla, lemon zest and powdered sugar and beat until combined. Continue to beat until smooth and glossy - about 7 minutes.
• Slice carrot up into rounds. Add carrot, butter, sugar, cointreau and salt to a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer and reduce until syrupy - about 5 minutes.

CARROT CAKE WITH BABY FOOD CARROTS

Steps:

• Cake method: Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Grease and flour a 9x13 baking pan.
• Place first 9 ingredients (through 2 teaspoons vanilla) in a large mixing bowl.
• Beat with electric beaters or mixer paddle for 2 minutes on medium speed.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in 350ºF oven for 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Allow the cake to cool completely; prepare icing in the meantime.
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• Icing Method: In a medium bowl, combine final three ingredients.
• Beat until smooth and fluffy.
• Ice completely cooled cake.
• Grab your own piece before anyone else knows it's done!

PAT'S AWARD WINNING CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix the oil and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture just until combined. Stir in chopped pecans, carrot baby food, grated carrots, and coconut. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

EXCELLENT CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Combine first 5 ingredients; beat well.
• Mix flour, soda, salt and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture; stir well.
• Add carrots, walnuts, pineapple and coconut; stir well.
• Pour batter into greased and floured 13x9 baking pan.
• Bake at 350° for 55 minutes, or until pick comes out clean.
• Buttermilk Glaze: Combine first 5 ingredients in large saucepan.
• Bring to a boil; cook 4 minutes on medium heat.
• Remove from heat; add vanilla.
• Pour buttermilk glaze over warm cake; let cake cool.
• Cream Cheese Frosting: Mix cream cheese and butter; beat until smooth.
• Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Spread cream cheese frosting on top of cooled cake.

BABY FOOD CAKE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 or 10 inch Bundt pan.
• Combine the cake mix, sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, apricot baby food and plum baby food. Mix for 2 minutes. Stir in walnuts and pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 1 hour. Wonderful with a light dusting of confectioner's sugar or with an almond frosting.

BABY FOOD PINEAPPLE COCONUT CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients and mix well.
• Add oil, eggs and baby food and mix on low speed until well combined.
• Fold in pineapples, nuts and coconut.
• Pour into 2- 9 inch greased and floured pans.
• Bake for about 35 minutes or until center tests done.
• Cool for 15 minutes on wire rack and then remove from pans.
• Cool completely before filling and frosting.
• Frosting: In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth.
• Add vanilla and confectioner's sugar and beat until desired spreading consistency.
• Frost cakes and sprinkle top with additional chopped walnuts and coconut, if desired.
• If you have any left, store in the refrigerator!