Carrot cake

[jcallaghan]

• Serves: 8
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 35 minutes
• Total Time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

• 225g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
• 4 eggs
• 175g soft light brown sugar
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp fresh nutmeg
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice (optional)
• 300g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 300g carrots, grated
• 100g walnuts, chopped, plus extra to decorate
• 50g pecan nuts, chopped, plus extra to decorate
• 1-2 tbsp milk
• 2 tsp vanilla paste

For the icing

• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• 350g icing sugar
• Lemon, zest
• 150g cream cheese
• 1 tsp vanilla paste

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180°C.
2. Grease 2 x 20cm sandwich tins.
3. Beat the butter, eggs and sugar until fluffy.
4. Fold in the remaining ingredients along with the milk to loosen.
5. Divide the mix between the two tins.
6. Bake for 35-45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
7. Cool in the tins briefly, then on a cooling rack.

For the icing

1. Beat the butter and icing sugar with the lemon zest.
2. Add the cream cheese and continue to beat.
3. Place icing on the top of one cakes before placing the cake on top to form a cake and icing sandwich.
4. Top the cake with the remainder of the icing.
5. Decorate the icing with crushed/chopped walnuts and pecans around the edge in a circular fashion.

Notes

1. Some recipes include strained pineapple and also raisins but I've next had a carrot cake with these ingredients in the UK.

Pictures

Reference

• delicious. magazine carrot cake

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This Best Carrot Cake Recipe won't disappoint! Soft, moist, tender and loaded with pineapples, raisins, walnuts, and perfectly sweetened cream cheese frosting, this is one of the yummiest sheet cakes you'll ever have!

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Cook 16/02/2022

Great cook. Noticeable nutmeg. SO would prefer icing on the side too! Next time try topping with crushed walnuts rather than whole ones.

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