Make a moist, delicious carrot cake using prepared cake mix and mayonnaise. Using the prepared cake mix saves you a few steps, primarily assembling and mixing the dry ingredients. Adding mayonnaise to the recipe makes the cake moister than your usual recipe. Use your favorite carrot-cake recipe and adapt it by substituting in the cake mix and adding mayonnaise. It may just become your new, favorite cake recipe.
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit for metal and glass pans, or 325 degrees Fahrenheit for dark pans.
Step 2
Spray the baking pan with a nonstick spray -- most recipes call for greasing the pan, but using a nonstick spray gives the same effect and saves the calories that would have been added by using butter.
Step 3
Pour the ingredients for the carrot cake into the bowl. Instead of the dry ingredients -- flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and baking powder -- use one box of yellow-cake mix. Add 1 cup of mayonnaise to the mix. Add the other carrot-cake ingredients, which are typically eggs, water and cinnamon. Use the amount of eggs and water called for in the yellow cake-mix directions Most recipes also call for using grated carrots and chopped walnuts or pecans, but hold off on adding these until last.
Step 4
Beat the ingredients with a hand mixer until they are well combined.
Step 5
Add the grated carrots and chopped walnuts or pecans to the bowl and blend them with a wooden spoon.
Step 6
Pour the ingredients into the baking pan.
Step 7
Place the pan in the preheated oven.
Step 8
Bake the cake for about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Tips and Warnings
- Cool the cake completely, and frost it with a cream-cheese frosting. To save the hassle of shredding carrots, use a boxed carrot-cake mix instead of the yellow-cake mix and grated carrots.
Things You'll Need
- Nonstick spray
- 13-by-9-inch baking pan
- Large bowl
- Yellow cake mix
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- Cinnamon
- Eggs
- Hand mixer
- Grated carrots
- Chopped walnuts or pecans
- Wooden spoon
- Toothpick
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