How to Prepare Perfect Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake.

Carrot Cake You can have Carrot Cake using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Carrot Cake

  1. You need 2 of carrot, peeled and grated.
  2. You need 3 of eggs.
  3. Prepare 250 ml of brown sugar.
  4. You need 250 ml of sunflower oil.
  5. You need 500 ml of self raising flour.
  6. You need 5 ml of ground cinnamon.
  7. Prepare 5 ml of nutmeg.
  8. Prepare Pinch of salt.
  9. Prepare 100 g of pecan nuts.
  10. It’s 30 g of seedless raisins.
  11. Prepare of Topping.
  12. It’s 500 ml of icing sugar.
  13. It’s 125 g of cream cheese.

Carrot Cake step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 160 º C. Grease a 20cm cake tin or medium loaf pan.
  2. Beat eggs, sugar and oil together in a mixing bowl, for 2 minutes. Gently add in all the remaining ingredients – grated carrots, self raising flour, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pecan nuts, seedless raisins – and mix together..
  3. Pour mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes. Once cake has cooled slightly, turn out onto a cake cooling rack..
  4. Ice the cooled cake with the topping made by mixing both cream cheese and icing sugar together. Decorate with the reserved pecan nuts..