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Food Cooking and Cuisines

How to make carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

Calling all dessert lovers! This carrot cake recipe is a Father's Day special



PREP TIME 6 h
COOK TIME 3h
SERVES 10
Ingredients

    For the cake:

    4 eggs

    625 gms brown sugar

    1000 gms carrots, grated

    595 gms all-purpose flour

    500 ml vegetable oil

    1 tsp baking soda

    1 ½ tsp baking powder

    1 tsp vanilla essence

    1 tsp cinnamon powder

    100 gm tutti-frutti

    50 gms cornflakes, crushed

    1 tsp mixed spices (nutmeg, coriander powder, cinnamon, cloves, and mace)

    50 gms cashew nuts, caramelised

    For the frosting:

    200 gms cream cheese

    750 gms powdered sugar (or icing sugar)

    115 gms butter (salted)

    1 tsp vanilla essence

Ingredient Substitution Guide

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease the baking pan of your choice with oil or butter, then layer with wax or butter paper.

2. In a large bowl, combine oil, grated carrots, brown sugar and vanilla essence. Mix well, using a hand mixer. Add eggs one by one to the bowl, and mix again. Keep aside.

3. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and mixed spices into another bowl – before adding it to the egg-sugar-carrot mixture – in batches.

4. Fold in the tutti-frutti and crushed cornflakes to the mixture, before pouring into the prepared pan.

5. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 50 minutes. Cool the cake for a minimum of 1 hour, before frosting.

Note: You can also insert a skewer into the centre of the cake to check if the cake comes out clean.

6. For the frosting, first add a stick of butter and beat it thoroughly so that it becomes pale, light and double the volume.

7. Next, add cream cheese and vanilla essence, and beat it for another 5 minutes.

8. Add the powdered sugar (or icing sugar) in batches till it becomes smooth and creamy.

9. Spread the frosting evenly on the cooled cake before garnishing it with the caramelised cashew nuts.

10. Let the cake sit in the fridge for a few hours before serving.

Note: Leave the eggs and butter at room temperature prior to the baking process.

Blessy Benjamin
Blessy Benjamin is the headmistress at Delhi Private School, Dubai. In her spare time, she tries out new recipes and has a passion for baking.

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