Super Moist Carrot Cake.
You can have Super Moist Carrot Cake using 20 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Super Moist Carrot Cake
- Prepare 3 of eggs room temperature.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of buttermilk.
- It’s 3/4 cup of coconut oil.
- Prepare 1,5 cup of white sugar.
- Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- It’s 1/4 tsp of ground nutmeg.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
- You need 2 cups of all purpose flour.
- Prepare 2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 2 cups of shredded carrot (small shredded).
- It’s 1 cup of desiccated coconut.
- It’s 1 cup of chopped walnut.
- Prepare 226 gr of canned crushed pineapple (i don’t use the syrup). From canned pineapple chunks, i chopped to smaller size as I cannot find canned crushed pineapple.
- Prepare of Cream Cheese Frosting.
- Prepare 1 (250 gr) of Philadelphia Cream Cheese.
- It’s 115 gr of unsalted butter.
- It’s 1 cup of icing sugar (original recipe is 2 cups but i like it not too sweet).
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need of Lemon juice/zest (optional).
Super Moist Carrot Cake step by step
- Preheat oven 175 celcius. Grease and flour 2 8” round pan.
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside..
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Add flour mixture and mix well.
- In a medium bowl, combine shredded carrots, coconut, walnuts, pineapple.
- Using a large wooden spoon or a very heavy whisk, add carrot mixture to batter and fold in well..
- Divide the batter into 2 portion. Pour each portion into prepared pan, and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes. Check with toothpick..
- Allow the cake to cool before assembling the cake with cream cheese frosting.
- For cream cheese frosting: beat cream cheese and butter with mixer until creamy. Mix in the vanilla extract and the icing sugar gradually. Add lemon 🍋 juice/zest if using. Tips: if the frosting is too sweet, lemon juice will balance the sweetness and add a nice flavour too..
- Assemble the cake: take half of the frosting, spread it on 1 cooled cake. Put another cake on top and spread the remaining frosting all over the cake. Keep in the fridge for few hours before serving.