Does Anyone Have Any Good And Easy Home Made Recipes For A Carrot Cake Or A Chocolate Carrot Cake?

Answer 1

Honey Carrot Cake:
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1 1/2 cups honey
3/4 cup buttermilk
3 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups finely grated carrot
1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup chopped walnuts

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. In a large bowl, stir together the honey, buttermilk, eggs, oil and 2 teaspoons of vanilla until well blended. Add the flour mixture to the buttermilk mixture, and stir until all of the dry ingredients are absorbed. Stir in the carrot, pineapple, and walnuts by hand. Pour into the prepared pan.
Bake for 50 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting with cream cheese frosting.
To make the frosting, mix together the cream cheese, honey and 1 teaspoon of vanilla until smooth and well blended. Spread over the cooled cake.

Answer 2

Here's one you might like to try. It's rated as a 5 star out of 5 recipe.

Carrot Cake
15 Servings

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups white sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 cups grated carrots
1 cup flaked coconut
1 (15 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup butter
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups confectioners' sugar

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan. Set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk. Stir in carrots, coconut, vanilla, and pineapple. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; gently stir into carrot mixture. Stir in chopped nuts. Spread batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Remove from oven, and set aside to cool.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine butter or margarine, cream cheese, vanilla, and confectioners sugar. Blend until creamy. Frost cake while still in the pan.

Good luck and good eating.

Answer 3

Bourbon Carrot Cake with Bourbon Glaze

Ingredients

2/3 C oil
1 C sugar
2 eggs
1 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
3 Tbl Bourbon
1 1/2 C grated carrots
1 C chopped pecans

Bourbon glaze:
1 C powdered sugar
2 Tbl hot water
1 Tbl Bourbon whisky
Beat oil and sugar until well mixed. Beat in the eggs and stir in the
dry ingredients. Add Bourbon, carrots, pecans and mix well.
Pour into greased and floured 9x9-inch cake pan. Bake at 325 F for 40
minutes. Cool in pan.

Glaze:
Blend together and spread over cooled cake.


Coca-Cola Carrot Cake

Ingredients

(16 servings)


CAKE:
2 c Flour, sifted
1 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
2 tb Cocoa
3 Eggs
1 1/2 c Sugar
1/2 c Vegetable oil
3/4 c Coca-Cola
1 1/2 ts Vanilla
2 1/4 c Raw carrots, grated
1 c Nuts, chopped
1 c Coconut, flaked

COCA-COLA SYRUP:
3/4 c Sugar
2 ts Cocoa
6 tb Coca-Cola
6 tb Butter
1 tb Light corn syrup
1/2 ts Vanilla


Instructions

Mix all the dry ingredients together. Beat the eggs well; add sugar, oil, 3/4 cup cola, and vanilla and beat well. Stir in the dry ingredients until smooth, then add the carrots, nuts and coconut. Mix well. Bake in a greased and lightly floured 13 x 9 pan in a preheated 350~F oven for 40-50 minutes, until cake tests done. Remove from oven and prick hot cake all over with a fork, then pour the cola syrup slowly, evenly over the top. Serve warm or room temperature with lightly sweetened-vanilla flavored whipped cream. Coca-Cola Syrup: Combine sugar, cocoa, cola, butter and corn syrup in saucepan; bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil, stirring, until thick and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Add vanilla extract. Remove from heat and pour, hot, over hot cake.