Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Happy Easter!  This week I thought I would make something for the Easter Bunny because he is always filling us with lots of chocolate and treats during this time of the year.  I've never made a carrot cake before so I thought I would give it a try especially since I like to eat anything that has cream cheese frosting on it.  I got the original recipe from the AllRecipes website called 'Carrot Cake III' but I changed a few things around to my liking and the results were fabulous.  The cake was so moist and complimented well with the awesome maple cream cheese frosting.  This might be in my top five for favorite cakes, it was so good!  Hope you enjoy the recipe and Happy Easter!

Carrot Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

2 Large eggs
1/2 Cup vegetable oil
3/4 Cups granulated sugar
1/4 Cup packed brown sugar
1/8 Cup pure maple syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 Cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 Cups grated carrots (about 2 medium size)

For the Frosting:
1 package of cream cheese (250g), room temperature
4 Tbsp butter, room temperature
1/2 Cup powdered sugar
1 Cup white granulated sugar
1/4 Cup pure maple syrup

1) Preheat oven to 350F, grease and line an 8in square pan
2) In a large bowl whisk together eggs, oil, both sugars, maple syrup, and vanilla until well combined
3) Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and stir in until well combined
4) Add carrots and stir until evenly mixed
5) Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 30-40min or until toothpick inserted comes out clean
6) While cake is cooling make the frosting: in a medium sized bowl beat cream cheese and butter until creamy
7) Add both sugars and maple syrup and beat until desired consistancy (feel free to add more or less sugar depending on your sweetness preference)
8) Frost cake (wait until the cake is cooled completely) with cream cheese frosting then cut and enjoy!