Killer recipe for carrot cake wanted

Rikki

Here's mine.



Carrot cake with lemon cheese frosting.

You need approximately 3 large carrots (540g)

1 cup (250ml) vegetable oil
1 1/3 cups (250g) firmly packed brown sugar *
3 eggs
3 cups firmly packed, coarsely grated carrot
1 cup (120g) coarsely chopped walnuts
2 1/2 cups (375g) self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons mixed spice

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Pre heat oven to 180c.
Grease a deep 22cm-round cake tin. Line base with baking paper.

Beat oil, sugar and eggs in a small bowl with electric mixer until thick and creamy.
Transfer mixture to a large bowl, using a wooden spoon, stir in carrots and nuts, then sifted dry ingredients.
Pour mixture into prepared tin.

Bake for about 1 1/4 hours. Stand cake for 5 minutes in tin, then turn cake onto wire rack (right side up) to cool.

Spread cake with lemon cream cheese frosting.


* I use dark brown mascovado sugar


Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

30g butter softened
80g cream cheese
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon rind
1 1/2 cups (240g) icing sugar

Beat butter, cream cheese and rind in a small bowl until light and fluffy
Gradually beat in icing sugar.



TIPS

I cover the tin with tin foil to prevent the top burning.
Pecans are nice if you don't have walnuts
For the cream cheese I use full fat philadelphia.

Its very tasty without the icing too.

Penelope_Penguin

I made D&DD's Moist Carrot Cake :T It's yummy! Going to try Rikki's lemin frosting next time :T

Penny. x

Carrot Cake

6 oz soft brown sugar
1/4 pint sunflower oil
3 eggs
7 oz plain flour
1 tbsp mixed spice
1 tsp bicarb
8 oz grated carrots
4 oz sultanas

Beat sugar,oil and eggs til smooth. Gradually fold in flour, stir in mixed spice, carrots and sultanas. Pour into 2lb loaf tin; bake at gas 4 for 1 hour.

Penelope_Penguin

Just found an older thread - Killer recipe for carrot cake wanted.

HTH, Penny. x

olliesmummy06

cheers guys, made some last night. tastes great, not too sure about the frosting i made though-bit sweet for me.xx

Pink.

Hi olliesmummy,

I'm glad it turned out well for you. I'll merge this thread now with the other carrot cake thread to keep all the recipes together.

Pink

leighanne_2008

hi
i am looking for a cheap, easy and quite healthy recipe for a carrot cake. (not asking for much then am i?) :rotfl:

aswell it must not contain any type of nuts as i am allergic.
i am sure you great money savers will not let me down

Pink.

Hi leighanne,

Welcome to MSE and in particular to the Old Style board

There are lots of carrot cake recipes on this thread that should help:

Killer recipe for carrot cake wanted

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep all the recipes together.

Pink

leighanne_2008

hi pink
thanks am proud to say i am a member, cant believe ive been missing out for so long.

have looked through the thread and they look very yummy, cant wait to try them out!!:T

mrbadexample

There's this one too, which you are allowed to leave the walnuts out of, apparently.

kittiej

Does anyone have a really good recipe for carrot cake?

I used to have one but lost it somewhere.

I love carrot cake but haven't had it for ages so I thought I'd make one tomorrow.

Thanks in advance

KJ