World’s Best Carrot Cake

I felt like I needed to add more veggies to my diet so I made my favorite carrot cake! Ummm…Heck yeah! I’m happy to report that about three more slices of this baby and my eye sight should be back to normal!

I’m obsessed with this carrot cake recipe! It truly is the “World’s Best”! That is no exaggeration. This recipe ALWAYS receives rave reviews! (It makes me look good!) It’s the perfect balance of everything I love! Crushed pineapple, carrots, coconut, walnuts, and all the right spices, brought together with a delicious cream cheese frosting! This cake is bursting with flavor and ultra moist, but not overly sweet like some carrot cakes.

When you have blended all the ingredients together this is what your batter should look like. You’ll want to grease and flour three 8 inch cake pans, or you can do two 8-9  inch cake pans too. I wanted a three layer cake with thinner layers because I love how this cake looks with three layers. It’s a personal choice and totally up to you!

Tip: I only had two cake pans so I baked two, and then did the third after the first one had slightly cooled and I could invert it onto my cake plate.

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 cups shredded carrots
• 1 cup flaked coconut
• 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two or three 8 inch pans, depending on if you are doing a two layer or three layer cake.
2. In your mixer bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar and vanilla. mix well.
3. Add in your flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Mix till well blended.
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