How to make carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Prep time: 30 mins Oven time: 40-50 mins
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INGREDIENTS
Preheat oven to 350 deg Fahrenheit (175 deg Celcius)
Get your ingredients ready!
Grate carrots and chop nuts
In a large bowl, beat together eggs, vegetable oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
Mix in flour, baking soda, salt and ground cinnamon
Stir in grated carrots
Fold in chopped nuts
Line baking tin with baking paper, then grease and flour base and sides
Pour mixture into baking tin
Bake in oven for 40-50 minutes. Check CENTRE of cake with a toothpick. It should come out clean and relatively dry
When ready, remove from oven and let it cool completely. In the meantime...
Combine Philadelphia cream cheese, softened butter, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract in a medium bowl
Mix until it becomes soft and creamy
Spread cream cheese frosting all over cooled cake
Decorate with rest of chopped nuts as you wish!
Serve warm or cold
- 4.0 Eggs
- 1/4c Vegetable oil
- 2.0c White sugar
- 2.0tsp Vanilla extract
- 2.0c All-purpose flour
- 4.0tsp Baking soda
- 1/2tsp Salt
- 2.0tsp Ground cinnamon
- 3.0c Grated carrots
- 1/2c Chopped walnuts / pecans
- 1/2c Butter, softened
- 8.0oz Philadelphia cream cheese
- 2.0c Confectioners' sugar
- 1.0tsp Vanilla extract
- Chopped walnuts / pecans (for decoration)
- Grater / Blender
- Round baking tin (approx w 25cm h 5cm)
- Baking paper