Carrot Cake

Katie Davies
Katie Davies @katiehomecook
Wales, UK

My carrot cake recipe is full of flavor and super moist, as I add pineapple to the sponge.

Carrot Cake

My carrot cake recipe is full of flavor and super moist, as I add pineapple to the sponge.

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Ingredients

90 minutes
12-15 servings
  1. For the sponge:
  2. 250 gself-raising flour
  3. 1 tspbaking powder
  4. 1 pinchsalt
  5. 1 1/2 tspcinnamon
  6. 100 glight brown sugar
  7. 150 gcaster sugar
  8. 150 gvegetable oil
  9. 4eggs
  10. 1 tspvanilla extract
  11. 275 ggrated carrots
  12. 230 gtin of pineapple chunks
  13. 75 gwalnuts, chopped
  14. For the cream cheese frosting:
  15. 200 gbutter, room temperature
  16. 200 gcream cheese, drained
  17. 500 gicing sugar
  18. 1 tspvanilla extract
  19. Zest of 1 orange
  20. Walnuts for decorating

Cooking Instructions

90 minutes
  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Grease and line 3 8 inch cake tins, I use Trex to grease my tins.

  2. 2

    Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon to a large bowl. Whisk together the sugars, oil, eggs, in a separate large bowl, make sure everything is well combined. Add the flour mix to the wet ingredients and combine well.

  3. 3

    Drain the pineapple, then blitz in a food processor, drain the pineapple again.

  4. 4

    Fold in the pineapple, carrots, and walnuts to the cake mix. Equally, divide the mixture between the cake pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes. Cool the cakes in the tins for 5-10 minutes, then turn out and allow to cool completely.

  5. 5

    Meanwhile make the cream cheese frosting. Beat the butter and cream cheese together, once combined stop, do not overbeat (I use a stand mixer but you could use a hand mixer or make it by hand).

  6. 6

    Sift the icing sugar and add half to the butter mix along with the vanilla paste and orange zest, beat until combined, then add the second half of the icing sugar.

  7. 7

    Add a little frosting to your cake board, attach you first layer of cake, cover with a layer of frosting, then another round of cake and continue until you have stacked all three cakes. You can then choose to cover the whole cake in frosting or just the top and decorate the top with walnut halves.

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Katie Davies
Katie Davies @katiehomecook
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I am a passionate home cook with a flair for flavor.I was lucky enough to take part in BBC One's Britain's Best Home Cook, with Mary Berry.As a busy working mother with 4 young children, I strive to create recipes which are easy, tasty and nutritious but recipes which won't keep slaving away in the kitchen all day!Keep cooking FUN!If you do make any of my recipes I would absolutely love to see your results, and please get in touch if you have any questions or you would just like to say hi!Find more on www.katiehomecook.com
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Comments (2)

Sally Strong
Sally Strong @Sally
Love this! Carrot cake is my mums favourite 🥕

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