Grammy's Kitchen · Carrot Cake · Ultimate Moist & Delicious Carrot Cake
One of 70 carrot cake recipes we measured
from alexandracooks.com
24 cooks on alexandracooks.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 70.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 89% | 89% |
| total sugar | 175% | 233% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 19% | 14% |
| egg | 68% | 67% |
| leavener | 3% | 3% |
| salt | 2% | 1% |
| liquid | 47% | 0% |
| dairy | 124% | 94% |
| vegetables and beans | 154% | 107% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| Softened butter, for the pan | |
| 454 g | 1 lb. carrots |
| 295 g | 2 1/4 cups (295 g) all-purpose flour |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons baking soda |
| 7 g | 1 teaspoon (7 g) salt |
| 3 g | 1 teaspoon cinnamon |
| 315 g | 1 1/2 cups (315 g) granulated sugar |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup (100 g) packed brown sugar |
| 200 g | 4 large eggs, at room temperature, beaten |
| 264 g | 1 1/4 cups (264 g) vegetable or grapeseed oil |
| 226 g | 8 oz (226 g) cream cheese, cold |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup (100 g) sugar |
| 140 g | 2/3 cup (140 g) heavy cream |
| pinch sea salt | |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla |
Method: 8 steps, published by alexandracooks.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.