Simple Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2003, America's Test Kitchen TV

Was there way to avoid dense, soggy carrot cake and produce a streamlined recipe at the same time?

SERVES Makes one 13 by 9-inch cake

TIME 1½ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

When developing our carrot cake recipe, we wanted to avoid dense, soggy cake while streamlining the procedure. For a moist, rich cake with a tight and tender crumb, we tinkered with the amounts of all-purpose flour, carrots, and oil to get ...

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