Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
This moist, flavourful cake is incredibly simple to make and the frosting is divine. I like to add raisins and chopped walnuts to the cake but you can leave them out if you prefer.
- Prep time:
- 20 mins
- Cook time:
- 55 - 60 mins
- Makes:
- 1 cake
- 1 cup neutral oil, such as canola or grapeseed
- 2 cups raw or white sugar
- 4 small eggs
- 1 cup wholemeal flour
- 1 cup plain / all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 3 cups grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots)
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbsp orange juice
Cream Cheese Icing
- 75g butter, at room temperature
- 250g cream cheese (not the spreadable kind)
- finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 4 cups icing / confectioner's sugar
- shredded zest of 1 orange
Preheat oven to 160ºC fanbake. Grease a 25cm-diameter loose-bottomed cake tin and line the base with baking paper.
Place oil, sugar and eggs in the bowl of a food processor and whizz to combine. Add both flours, salt, cinnamon, mixed spice, ginger and grated carrot and pulse again to just combine – don’t over-mix.
Dissolve baking soda in orange juice and pulse into cake mixture. Spread into prepared tin and bake until the top bounces back when pressed and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean (55–60 minutes). Allow to cool before icing with Cream Cheese Icing.
To make the Cream Cheese Icing, place softened butter, cream cheese, lemon zest and juice and icing / confectioner's sugar in a food processor. Blend until smooth then spread over top and sides of cake. Garnish with orange zest.
Variation:
Add 1 cup raisins and / or ½ cup chopped walnuts.
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