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.

Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added in the mix. The origins of carrot cake are disputed. How to make carrot cake from scratch. You can have Carrot Cake using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

You need of For the sponge:.
It's 250 g of self-raising flour.
It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
It's 1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
You need 100 g of light brown sugar.
Prepare 150 g of caster sugar.
You need 150 g of vegetable oil.
It's 4 of eggs.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
Prepare 275 g of grated carrots.
Prepare 230 g of tin of pineapple chunks.
Prepare 75 g of walnuts, chopped.
It's of For the cream cheese frosting:.
You need 200 g of butter, room temperature.
Prepare 200 g of cream cheese, drained.
Prepare 500 g of icing sugar.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
You need of Zest of 1 orange.
You need of Walnuts for decorating.

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Carrot Cake step by step

Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Grease and line 3 8 inch cake tins, I use Trex to grease my tins..
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..
Drain the pineapple, then blitz in a food processor, drain the pineapple again..
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..
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)..
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..
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..

This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. With a hint of cinnamon, soft crunch from nuts, ultra moist crumb and piled high with the This Carrot Cake is from a reader, the lovely Dorothy of Tennessee in the States, a long-time. Spoon ¼ of the icing on top and spread in an even layer.