Easy Carrot Cake
This is my simple recipe for making a delicious and moist carrot cake.
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Ingredients
Carrot Cake
- 180 Light muscovado sugar
- 4 Medium eggs
- 180 ml Sunflower oil
- 150 g Carrots grated
- 100 g Raisins
- 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- 180 g Self raising flour
- 1 tsp Ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp Ground nutmeg
- 2 Oranges
Icing
- 200 g Full fat cream cheese
- 150 g Caster sugar
- 100 g Softened butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- In a mixing bowl, add the muscovado sugar, sunflower oil and eggs then beat until smooth.
- Add in the grated carrot, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, and the zest of 2 oranges. Fold it together.
- Add the teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda into the self-raising flour, then sift the flour into the cake batter, fold it together until it’s well combined.
- Pour the batter into a lined 20cm cake tin, then bake it for 40 minutes.
- It should be firm and springy in the middle. Leave it to cool in the tin for a few minutes before turning it out onto a wire cooling rack.
- Prepare the icing by adding the cream cheese, caster sugar, softened butter and the juice of one orange into a mixing bowl and whisk until it's smooth and creamy.
- Smother the icing over the top of the cake then finish with orange zest.
- Pop into the fridge for an hour for the icing to set.
6 comments on “Carrot Cake”
Absolutely delicious! Best carrot cake recipe I’ve tried, will now be my go to bake.
Absolutely delicious! Best carrot cake recipe I have tried, will now be my go to bake.
Hi Jon
love your recipes
can this carrot cake recipe be made as muffins, picking out some recipes for a tea day
Hey! Thank you. Yes it can, but the cooking time will change, if you use a skewer or a toothpick, it should come out clean when you poke it in.
Are your oven temperatures electric or fan oven please?
Hi, all my recipes are for fan assisted ovens.