Carrot cake with cream cheese butter icing

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    2 hours 30 min

    Very moist carrot cake with a mild cheese butter icing. This carrot cake is perfectly spiced with an aromatic combination of cinnamon, ginger and cloves.


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    Ingredients
    Serves: 14 

    • 240g carrots, finely grated
    • 45ml buttermilk
    • 200ml vegetable oil (or 75% veg oil, 25% olive oil)
    • 235g caster sugar
    • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 2 medium + 1 yolk eggs, lightly whisked
    • 200g self-raising flour
    • 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
    • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
    • For the icing
    • 45g unsalted butter
    • 45g soft cheese (1/2 fat)
    • 320g icing sugar
    • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

    Method
    Prep:30min  ›  Cook:1hr  ›  Extra time:1hr chilling  ›  Ready in:2hr30min 

    1. Preheat oven 190 C / Gas 5. Line a 20cm (8") cake tin with greaseproof paper.
    2. Whisk together carrots, buttermilk, oil, caster sugar, vanilla extract and lightly whisked eggs in a bowl. Electric whisk on high speed for 4 minutes.
    3. In another bowl sift together and mix self raising flour, bicarbonate soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves.
    4. Fold this mixture into first carrot mix bowl. Pour this cake mix into lined cake tin, bake in the preheated oven for 55-70 minutes until cake has set. I reduce oven temp to 160 C fan after 10 mins. Test with a skewer. Cool and transfer to plate.
    5. To make icing, cream together in bowl the butter and soft cheese, fold in sifted icing sugar, vanilla extract and then whisk. Icing needs to be quite firm. Add more icing sugar if required.
    6. Cover cake with icing and dust with ground cinnamon. Chill for at least for 1 hour.

    Tip

    Best to chill overnight for firm frosting and easy slicing.

    Other ideas

    Try adding 100g raisins to the cake mix. Also try decorating with toasted dessicated coconut, or lightly toasted walnuts.

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    Yum, Yum!  -  21 Oct 2011

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    I reduced the recipe by a quarter but next time would just do half the recipe. It might be the way I made it but was a bit stodgy (even for a Carrot Cake). Mind you, it all got eaten without any complaints!  -  04 Jul 2013

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    I guess my cake tin wasn't deep enough as the mixture overflowed during baking but otherwise it was absolutely fantastic! I altered a few ingredients, for example using wholewheat flour, oat milk, and a little bit less carrot (making up the difference with the stuff left behind in the sieve when I made the oat milk! I also used a different icing.  -  02 Nov 2011

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