A dessert dish from the British kitchen.
Ingredients
- 450ml Vegetable Oil
- 400g Plain Flour
- 2 tsp Bicarbonate Of Soda
- 550ml Sugar
- 5 Eggs
- ½ tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- 500g grated Carrots
- 150g Walnuts
- 200g Cream Cheese
- 150g Caster Sugar
- 100g Butter
Method
- For the carrot cake, preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3. Grease and line a 26cm/10in springform cake tin. Mix all of the ingredients for the carrot cake, except the carrots and walnuts, together in a bowl until well combined. Stir in the carrots and walnuts. Spoon the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then carefully remove the cake from the tin and set aside to cool completely on a cooling rack. Meanwhile, for the icing, beat the cream cheese, caster sugar and butter together in a bowl until fluffy. Spread the icing over the top of the cake with a palette knife.
Source
This recipe is adapted from TheMealDB (id 52897), a free community-curated recipe API. Original listing: themealdb.com.
A walkthrough video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asjZ7iTrGKA.
Original source noted by the contributor: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/classic_carrot_cake_08513.
Estimated by AI from the ingredient list. Values are approximate and not medical advice. If you have specific dietary requirements, verify with a registered dietitian or trusted nutrition database.
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