Carrot cake. I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.
It wasn't until recently that we realized just how much we love carrot cake.
This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere.
It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans.
You can cook Carrot cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Carrot cake
- It's 275 grams of self-raising flour.
- You need 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
- You need 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- It's 1 tsp of mixed spices.
- You need 1/2 tsp of nutmeg.
- Prepare 275 grams of casted sugar.
- Prepare 100 grams of walnuts.
- You need 80 grams of raisins.
- It's 400 grams of grated carrots.
- Prepare 4 each of eggs.
- Prepare 250 ml of rapeseed oil.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of vanila extract.
- Prepare 200 grams of cream cheese.
- You need 50 grams of butter.
- It's 450 grams of icing sugar.
- Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. The origins of carrot cake are disputed.
Carrot cake instructions
- Dry ingredients in same bowl: flour, soda, cinnamon, spice mix, nutmeg, walnuts and raisins.
- In large bowl, using an electric hand mixer, whisk together the eggs, then add sugar, until pale and fluffy. With the mixer still on, pour the oil into the bowl, in a steady stream, and mix until it is completely incorporated, then mix in the vanilla extract..
- Add dry ingredients into this bowl, mix it all good, then add carrots, mix it..
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas mark 4. Grease mixture in two or three 23cm springform.
- Prepare the frosting by beating the cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and cinnamon until you have a smooth, spreadable mix. Assemble the cake by spreading each layers with cream cheese frosting..
- p.s On base of the springform put the baking paper, wall of springform coat with butter..
A wonderfully moist, perfectly spiced carrot cake recipe. Whether you want a carrot cake that's dense, moist and full of spice and nuts, or you like Try Rachel Allen's easiest carrot cake loaf for afternoon tea, Dan Lepard's carrot cake cupcakes for Easter, or. This truly is the best carrot cake recipe! It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting. My family's best carrot cake recipe dates back to my great-grandmother!