Carrot cake 🥕

Name: Carrot cake 🥕
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 250 ml white sugar; 250 ml brown sugar; 200 ml oil; 5 ml vanilla essence; 4 eggs; 500 ml cake flour; 10 ml baking soda; 2.5 ml salt; 7.5 ml ground cinnamon; 750 ml peeled grated carrots; 100 g pecan nuts; As needed Spray & Cook; 250 g cream cheese; 300 ml icing sugar; 30 ml lemon juice; 80 ml whipping cream

Shandré Goss-Ross @shandre

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

This cake was ideal with tea for a Sunday treat. #bakeoff

Shandré Goss-Ross @shandre

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

This cake was ideal with tea for a Sunday treat. #bakeoff

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Ingredients

Carrot cake
250 mlwhite sugar
250 mlbrown sugar
200 mloil
5 mlvanilla essence
4eggs
500 mlcake flour
10 mlbaking soda
2.5 mlsalt
7.5 mlground cinnamon
750 mlpeeled grated carrots
100 gpecan nuts
As neededSpray & Cook
Cream cheese frosting
250 gcream cheese
300 mlicing sugar
30 mllemon juice
80 mlwhipping cream

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Steps

1

Preheat the oven to 180°C. In a bowl beat the white sugar, brown sugar, oil and vanilla essence.
2

Add the eggs one by one and beat until smooth.
3

In a bowl sift the cake flour, baking soda, salt and ground cinnamon.
4

Gently fold the flour into the egg mixture.
5

Chop the pecan nuts. Add the grated carrots and chopped pecan nuts to the batter.
6

Grease a cake tin with Spray & Cook. Pour the batter into the greased cake tin. Bake for 45-60 minutes in preheated oven (180°C). Remove from tin and let cool completely.
7

Frosting: Beat the cream cheese. Add the icing sugar and beat.
8

Add the lemon juice and cream to the frosting and beat.
9

When the cake is completely cool. Decorate the cake as you like.