Name: Amazing Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Topping
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 cups flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tsp salt; 2 tsp cinnamon powder; 4 eggs; 1½ cup oil; 1½ cup sugar; 2 carrots, grated; 1 cup chopped pecan nuts; ½ cup desiccated coconut; 1½ cup milk; 1 tub cream cheese; 4 cups icing sugar; 2 tsp vanilla essence; 100g softened butter

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Yield: 2 single layers

Amazing Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Topping

Carrot cake is a cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added to the mix.

This amazing Carrot Cake recipe is topped with the ultra fluffy cream cheese frosting.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes

Cooling Time 25 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon powder
4 eggs
1½ cup oil
1½ cup sugar
2 carrots, grated
1 cup chopped pecan nuts
½ cup desiccated coconut
1½ cup milk

Cream Cheese Icing

1 tub cream cheese
4 cups icing sugar
2 tsp vanilla essence
100g softened butter

Instructions

Beat the sugar, oil, and eggs together until fluffy.

Add milk, salt, cinnamon, bicarbonate of soda, and baking powder and mix through.

Then continue to add the flour, and mix well then lastly add the nuts, coconut, and carrots and mix well to ensure everything beautifully incorporated.

Place in a well-greased baking tin

Bake at 160C / 320F for 35 minutes

Icing

Cream butter and cheese until ultra fluffy

Add vanilla and icing sugar and mix well

Once the cake is cooled, you can ice it.

Notes

Prepared, tried, and tested by Jennifer Govender Bisnath

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How do you make a carrot cake moist from scratch?

Baking soda helps the cake to rise. Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. The oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral-flavored oil will work. (Melted coconut oil works, too, but there will be a light coconut flavor in the baked cake.)

Nutrition Information

Yield

Serving Size

10
Amount Per Serving Calories 4621Total Fat 281gSaturated Fat 55gTrans Fat 3gUnsaturated Fat 211gCholesterol 509mgSodium 2390mgCarbohydrates 505gFiber 14gSugar 379gProtein 42g

All recipes on this blog, EsmeSalon, are for personal home use, and as I am not a nutritionist, please use these calculations as a guide only. Please feel free to check the nutritional values for accuracy.

How do you shred carrots for carrot cake?

Use a vegetable peeler to remove the carrot’s outer layer, working from the top to the tip of each carrot, and then cut off the tops of the carrots with a sharp knife. Discard the tops and peelings. Select the finest holes on a cheese grater and shred the carrots carefully.

Should you peel carrots for carrot cake?

When it comes down to it, you don’t ever really have to peel carrots. As long as you wash and scrub them well to remove dirt and any debris, unpeeled carrots are perfectly safe (and delicious) to eat. Some people don’t like the taste of carrot skin and say it has an unpleasant, bitter taste.

What side of grater do you use for carrot cake?

Hold a box grater in your non-dominant hand and a peeled carrot in your dominant hand. Place the carrot against the side of the grater that has the smallest holes. The length of the carrot should be against the side of the grater. Grate the carrot using a downward motion.

What is the difference between grated and shredded carrots?

Shredded carrots are more like long strings while the grated carrot is very fine small pieces. The shredder blade of a food processor will create longer pieces and a microplane or cheese grater will make the smaller pieces.

Can you use pre-shredded carrots for carrot cake?

Freshly Shredded Carrots: My #1 tip for carrot cakes is to shred whole carrots at home. Do not use packaged pre-shredded carrots because they are hard and dry. You need about 4 large carrots for this recipe. And when you grate them, you’ll notice how wet they are.

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8 thoughts on “Amazing Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Topping”

Laurie
October 26, 2020 at 5:54 am
Carrot cake is my favorite. I always ask for it for my birthday. It’s almost like healthy cake! One admission, though – when I make this cake, I will probably double the icing amount. I love cream cheese icing!
- EsmeSalon
  October 26, 2020 at 8:21 am
  Oh the double cream cheese sounds awesome. Hope you will truly enjoy this one even if it’s not your birthday
Michele Morin
October 26, 2020 at 4:37 am
Amazing appears to be the perfect adjective!
- EsmeSalon
  October 26, 2020 at 8:19 am
  Michele, Yes, you have to try it super delicious
Bernadine
October 25, 2020 at 10:43 am
Hi Esmé! Hope your doing well 🙂 This carrot cake looks delicious, what a classic! If you don’t mind me asking, how did you structure your recipe template? I’d love to make my recipes look more official rather than just bullets of ingredients on my posts 🙂
- EsmeSalon
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Marianna
October 23, 2020 at 8:05 am
I am not a big fan of carrot cakes, but this recipe sounds delicious. The cream cheese topping makes it even better. Thanks for sharing Esme!
- EsmeSalon
  October 23, 2020 at 9:23 am
  Hi Marianna, I have found carrot cakes can be very disappointing sometimes, but this one with the cream cheese topping may be worth a try. I have NOT made this particular recipe myself. As you know, I receive the recipes from fellow members on TRH, but this particular member who shared this recipe, has wonderful stuff and I am confident that this will be awesome.