This carrot cake is moist and dense with fruity little gems in every bite. Adding crushed pineapple is a lovely addition to the carrot cake recipe. The frosting is silky smooth and tangy with just a hint of pineapple flavor. This is definitely not your grandma's carrot cake!
Provided by Aneisha DeArman @Showmans_wifey
Categories Cakes
Number Of Ingredients 25
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, and allspice in a bowl.
- In a separate bowl mix oil, applesauce, pineapples, raisins, and coconut.
- Add eggs by hand to dry mix 1 by 1.
- Then using an electric mixer on low setting to add the wet mix to egg mix.
- Then by hand mix in the carrots and walnuts.
- Use some Crisco spray with flour and spray 2 9-inch pans.
- Pour batter into the pans.
- Cook for about 40 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- For the icing, mix the butter and cream cheese with electric mixer.
- Add powdered sugar little by little.
- Once the sugar is in add the pineapple juice and then the vanilla extract.
- Once the cake has cooled, ice the cake.
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