Cream cheese topped carrot cake
So this is my recipe for carrot cake. I've previously posted the recipe on line on my blog and its one my family love and ask me to make again and again. There's a lot of cream cheese topping as you can see but its not necessary to put that much on the cake in all honesty...I'm just sweet toothed but I guess the carrot must count towards your five a day.
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Ingredients
- 250g self-raising flour
- 4 tsps ground cinnamon
- 400g golden caster sugar
- 350ml vegetable oil (or rapseed oil)
- 4 large organic eggs
- 360g grated carrots
- 150g walnut pieces
- For the icing: 200g full fat cream cheese
- 130g room temperature softened and cubed unsalted butter
- 460g icing sugar sieved
- 1 tsp vanilla essence or vanilla bean paste
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180/160 fan
- Grease and line two 23cm shallow round cake tins
- Mix the flour, cinnamon and sugar toether before adding the vegetable oil
- Mix the vegetable oil in thoroughly
- Add the eggs one at a time until well blended
- Then with a wooden spoon mix in the carrots and walnut pieces
- Divide the mixture between the two tins, giving then a little tap on the counter to level them out
- Bake both tins in the middle of the oven for around 25-35 or until the cakes have risen and the tester is clean
- Remove from the oven and leave to stand for 10 minutes before taking the cakes out of their tins
- Leave the cakes to rest for about an hour or until they are both completely cool to touch
- While the cakes are resting make the cream cheese topping by sieving the icing sugar into a bowl and combining with the butter and vanilla
- When they are blended then add the cream cheese and mix again until smooth and silky
- Level off the cakes with a knife and spread a this layer of the cream cheese over the bottom cake
Place the other cake on top and spread another layer of cream cheese on top
If, like me, you like cream cheese buttercream around the sides of the cake then do so but it isn't really that necessary- Decorate with walnut halves
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