Recipe of Homemade Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake. I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting.

But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long. Carrot Cake Recipe - How to Make Carrot Cake This cake is quick and easy to make, versatile and utterly delicious. You can have Carrot Cake using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

1. Prepare of For the sponge:.
2. Prepare 250 g of self-raising flour.
3. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
4. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
5. It's 1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
6. Prepare 100 g of light brown sugar.
7. You need 150 g of caster sugar.
8. Prepare 150 g of vegetable oil.
9. Prepare 4 of eggs.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
11. You need 275 g of grated carrots.
12. Prepare 230 g of tin of pineapple chunks.
13. It's 75 g of walnuts, chopped.
14. It's of For the cream cheese frosting:.
15. You need 200 g of butter, room temperature.
16. It's 200 g of cream cheese, drained.
17. You need 500 g of icing sugar.
18. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
19. You need of Zest of 1 orange.
20. Prepare of Walnuts for decorating.

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Carrot Cake instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Grease and line 3 8 inch cake tins, I use Trex to grease my tins..
2. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon to a large bowl. Whisk together the sugars, oil, eggs, in a separate large bowl, make sure everything is well combined. Add the flour mix to the wet ingredients and combine well..
3. Drain the pineapple, then blitz in a food processor, drain the pineapple again..
4. Fold in the pineapple, carrots, and walnuts to the cake mix. Equally, divide the mixture between the cake pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes. Cool the cakes in the tins for 5-10 minutes, then turn out and allow to cool completely..
5. Meanwhile make the cream cheese frosting. Beat the butter and cream cheese together, once combined stop, do not overbeat (I use a stand mixer but you could use a hand mixer or make it by hand)..
6. Sift the icing sugar and add half to the butter mix along with the vanilla paste and orange zest, beat until combined, then add the second half of the icing sugar..
7. Add a little frosting to your cake board, attach you first layer of cake, cover with a layer of frosting, then another round of cake and continue until you have stacked all three cakes. You can then choose to cover the whole cake in frosting or just the top and decorate the top with walnut halves..

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