Recipe: Delicious Carrot Cake
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. A wonderfully moist, perfectly spiced carrot cake recipe. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. You can have Carrot Cake using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Carrot Cake
- You need 2 of carrot, peeled and grated.
- It's 3 of eggs.
- It's 250 ml of brown sugar.
- Prepare 250 ml of sunflower oil.
- Prepare 500 ml of self raising flour.
- Prepare 5 ml of ground cinnamon.
- You need 5 ml of nutmeg.
- Prepare Pinch of salt.
- You need 100 g of pecan nuts.
- It's 30 g of seedless raisins.
- You need of Topping.
- It's 500 ml of icing sugar.
- It's 125 g of cream cheese.
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Carrot Cake instructions
- Preheat oven to 160 º C. Grease a 20cm cake tin or medium loaf pan.
- Beat eggs, sugar and oil together in a mixing bowl, for 2 minutes. Gently add in all the remaining ingredients - grated carrots, self raising flour, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pecan nuts, seedless raisins - and mix together..
- Pour mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes. Once cake has cooled slightly, turn out onto a cake cooling rack..
- Ice the cooled cake with the topping made by mixing both cream cheese and icing sugar together. Decorate with the reserved pecan nuts..
It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. 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!