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Homemade Moist Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Soft and moist cake made with carrots, raisins and cinnamon
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes
Calories:

Servings: 2 people

Equipment

  • Oven

Ingredients

  • 125 g All-purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp Salt Table salt
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon Ground powder
  • 100 g Brown Sugar
  • 100 g White sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 2 Eggs
  • 290 g Oil Canola or Vegetable oil
  • 200 g Carrots Grated
  • 50 g Raisins
  • 50 g Walnuts Chopped

Cream cheese Frosting

  • 110 g Cream cheese Block cream cheese
  • 70 g Icing Sugar
  • 40 g Cream Thick cream, Whipping cream

Decoration

  • 100 g Walnuts Chopped

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 175C. Grease and line one, 9 inches round baking pan with baking paper
  • Grate the carrots using a box grater and leave aside
  • In a big bowl place flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and mix well
  • In a bowl of the stand mixer add in the white sugar, brown sugar, vanilla essence and beat well. Gradually add the oil. Then add the eggs.
  • Add in the flour mixture and reduce the speed
  • Finally add the grated carrots, walnuts and raisins and mix well to combine on a low speed
  • Pour into prepared lined cake pans and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean
  • Once it's out of the oven rest for 30 minutes before unmolding the cake. Cooldown completely on a cooling rack before frosting the cake

Cream cheese frosting

  • Place the cream cheese and icing sugar in a bowl and mix well until soft
  • Once soft and smooth and add in the cream gradually
  • Decorate the cake as you desire, add in chop walnuts around the cake.

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