SIMPLE AND DELCIOUS CARROT CAKE RECIPE!
By The Fifth Design team
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 35-40 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Serving size: 8 Sliced of Cake
Easter is coming up! And what better way to celebrate than with a delicious carrot cake?
Here's the perfect Easter weekend treat!
Our recipe is easy to make, and it will leave you feeling like a professional chef. Plus, it's so delicious that your friends and family will think you spent hours in the kitchen making it.
And if you want to impress them even more, try using our ingredients to create an amazing cake and decorate it with an easter theme - simply add your favourite easter egg / bunny chocolates with it. A fun way to do with kids too!
INGREDIENTS
Cake:
2 cups (260 grams) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 ¼ cups (295 ml) canola or other vegetable oil
1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar
1 cup (190 grams) lightly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
4-5 grated carrot
1 cup crushed pecans
Cream Cheese Frosting:
225g cream cheese
1 ¼ cups (140 grams) powdered sugar
1/3 cup (80 ml) heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup (50 grams) coarsely chopped pecans, for topping cake.
Optional: Decorate the cake with your favourite chocolate easter egg / bunny.
METHOD
CAKE:
Combine all dry ingredients
Grate the carrot and add wet ingredients in a seperate bowl
Add wet ingredients and mix all together
Add in crushed pecans
Divide the cake batter between the prepared cake pans.
Bake until the tops of the cake layers are springy when touched and when a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 35 to 45 minutes.
Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then turn them out onto racks to cool completely before frosting.
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