Grammy's Kitchen · Carrot Cake · Easy Carrot Cake
One of 70 carrot cake recipes we measured
from simply-delicious-food.com
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 70.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 111% | 89% |
| total sugar | 233% | 233% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 43% | 14% |
| egg | 50% | 67% |
| leavener | 4% | 3% |
| salt | 2% | 1% |
| dairy | 83% | 94% |
| acid | 3% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 85% | 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.
| 218 g | 1 cup (250ml) vegetable oil |
| 200 g | 1 cup (200g) brown sugar |
| 150 g | 3 eggs |
| 4 g | 1 tsp vanilla extract |
| 3/4 cup (175ml) pineapple juice (drained from crushed pineapple) | |
| 300 g | 2 3/4 cup (300g) flour |
| 6 g | 1 1/2 tsp baking powder |
| 7 g | 1 1/2 tsp baking soda |
| 6 g | 1 tsp salt |
| 6 g | 2 tsp ground cinnamon |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp nutmeg |
| 2 g | 1 tsp ground ginger |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp allspice |
| 430 g | 15 oz (430g) canned crushed pineapple (drained and juice reserved) |
| 256 g | 2 cups (4 medium) carrots (grated on fine side of box grater) |
| 100 g | 1 cup (100g) chopped pecan nuts |
| 115 g | 1/2 cup (115g) butter (softened) |
| 250 g | 8.8 oz (250g) cream cheese (softened) |
| 400 g | 3 1/4 cups (400g) powdered sugar/icing sugar (sifted) |
| 9 g | 2 tsp vanilla paste |
| 10 g | 2 tsp lemon juice |
| pinch of salt | |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup (100g) brown sugar |
| 3 g | 1 tsp ground cinnamon |
| 100 g | 1 cup (100g) pecan nuts (roughly chopped) |
| pinch of salt |
Method: 17 steps, published by simply-delicious-food.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.