Classic Carrot Cake with Dreamy Creamy White Chocolate Frosting

Name: Classic Carrot Cake with Dreamy Creamy White Chocolate Frosting
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves: 16 to 20
Ingredients: cinnamon; baking powder; flour; baking soda; pure vanilla extract; salt; unsweetened (alkalized) cocoa powder; shredded carrots; safflower oil; eggs; unbleached all-purpose flour; light brown sugar; canola; granulated sugar

Preparation info

Serves:
16 to 20

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Rose's Heavenly Cakes

By Rose Levy Beranbaum

Published 2009

About

This is one of my all-time favorite cakes, and I worked long and hard to strike the right balance of sugar and spice. The cake was inspired by my dear friend David Shamah after I ate it every time I visited his former restaurant Back to Nature in Brooklyn. It’s delicious either cold or at room temperature.

Ingredients

Batter

	Volume	Ounce	Gram
unbleached all-purpose flour

Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the Oven

Twenty minutes or more before baking, set an oven rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C.

Mix the Dry Ingredients

In a medium bowl, whisk togeth