Sticky carrot cake recipe
This carrot cake is moist and richly spiced, combined with a smooth cream cheese icing - the perfect bake to entertain with at afternoon tea.
See method- Serves 10
- 15 mins to prepare and 1 hour 5 mins to cook and 40 mins to cool
- 676 calories / serving
- Freezable
Ingredients
- butter, for greasing
- 300ml sunflower oil
- 100g soft dark brown sugar
- 250g light muscovado sugar
- 3 eggs
- 175g plain flour, sifted
- ¾tsp baking powder
- ¾tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ¾tsp ground cinnamon
- pinch of sea salt
- 250g carrots, grated
- 75g walnuts, chopped
- 50g sultanas (optional)
For the icing
- 175g cream cheese, at room temperature
- 175g unsalted butter, softened
- 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped and set aside
- 175g icing sugar, sifted
- walnut halves, to decorate
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 2820kJ 676.0kcal
- Fat
- 44g
- Saturates
- 17g
- Salt
- 0.6g
- Sugars
- 56g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 70.0gProtein 5.8gFibre 2.0g
Method
- Preheat the oven to gas 4, 180°C, fan 160°C. Butter a 23cm (9in) deep springform cake tin and line with nonstick baking paper.
- Pour the oil into a large bowl, add the sugars and beat with an electric hand whisk until well mixed. Add the eggs, one by one, beating well after each addition.
- Fold in the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, ground cinnamon and salt. Then carefully fold in the grated carrots, chopped walnuts and sultanas (if using). Pour into the prepared tin and smooth the surface.
- Bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 45 minutes. Then turn down the oven to gas 3, 170°C, fan 150°C and bake for a further 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake. Leave to cool for 10 minutes in the tin, then turn out onto a wire rack. Leave to cool completely, then cut the cake in two horizontally and set aside.
- For the icing, put the cream cheese, butter and vanilla seeds into a food processor and blend until smooth. Then add the icing sugar and blend again until smooth. Put in a bowl and chill for 30 minutes.
- To assemble the carrot cake, spread half the icing on one half of the cake. Put the other half back on top and then cover the top of the cake with the rest of the icing. Decorate with the walnut halves.
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