Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting – is a two-layered perfectly spiced, fluffy and moist cake with a hint of cinnamon and a dense cream cheese frosting. The perfect dessert for a spring celebration or any other special occasions.
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Moist Carrot Cake Recipe
This traditional carrot cake recipe used to be baked in spring celebration like Easter. However, a lot of people who love healthy cakes bake it all year round not only in the spring holidays. This carrot cake is incredibly moist and soft you will fall in love with it once you taste it.
Carrot Cake Ingredients
You don’t need any fancy ingredients to make this classic cinnamon carrot cake; I bet you will find all the ingredients below in your pantry.
For the cake
- Plain flour
- Carrot
- White sugar
- Eggs at room temperature
- Oil
- Baking powder
- Vanilla extract
- Ground cinnamon
This amount of ingredients makes two layers of 22 cm cake.
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
- Cream cheese
- Heavy whipped cream
- Powdered sugar
- Vanilla extract
How To Make This Easy Carrot Cake
To get the perfect result, follow the instructions below.
Preparing the oven: Preheat the oven at 170C.
Preparing the cake: Firstly, crack the eggs in a bowl and add the vanilla extract then whisk using the electric whisk.
Add the white sugar, keep whisking.
Then, add the oil then whisk again.
In a small bowl combine the flour, baking powder, salt and ground cinnamon.
Now, add the flour mixture to the egg mixture then whisk one more time.
Finally, add the carrot and stir using a spatula.
Preparing the baking dishes: Line two springforms sized 22 cm with parchment pepper and grease the sides with butter.
Baking: Divide the batter between the two springforms equally then bake for about 30 minutes until they become golden brown coloured.
Let the cake cool down completely before adding the topping.
How To Make The Cream Cheese Frosting
Making the cream cheese frosting is so easy, you only need two separate bowls and the electric whisk. Let’s talk in details.
In a bowl, whisk the heavy whipped cream until it has a thick consistency.
In the other bowl, whisk the cream cheese, powdered sugar and the vanilla extract. Then fold in the heavy cream mixture and stir with a spatula until incorporated. Put in the fridge until needed.
Assembling Everything
Spread equally a generous amount of the cream cheese frosting on the first layer of the cake then top it with the second layer.
After that, spread the rest of the frosting on the top layer and all around the cake. Then sprinkle some ground cinnamon on the top.
Tools Used In Making This Moist Carrot Cake
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Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
For the cake
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 cup carrot grated
- 1 1/4 cups white sugar
- 5 eggs at room temperature
- 1/3 cup oil
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
For the Cream cheese frosting
- 3/4 cup cream cheese
- 1/2 cup heavy whipped cream
- 5 tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 170C.
- Firstly, crack the eggs in a bowl and add the vanilla extract then whisk using the electric whisk.
- Add the white sugar, keep whisking.
- Then, add the oil then whisk again.
- In a small bowl combine the flour, baking powder, salt and ground cinnamon.
- Now, add the flour mixture to the egg mixture then whisk one more time.
- Finally, add the carrot and stir using a spatula.
- Line two springforms sized 22 cm with parchment pepper and grease the sides with butter.
- Divide the batter between the two springforms equally then bake for about 30 minutes until they become golden brown coloured.
- Let the cake cool down completely before adding the topping.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- In a bowl, whisk the heavy whipped cream until it has a thick consistency.
- In the another bowl, whisk the cream cheese, powdered sugar and the vanilla extract. Then fold in the heavy cream mixture and stir with a spatula until incorporated. Put in the fridge until needed.
Assembling everything
- Spread equally a generous amount of the cream cheese frosting on the first layer of the cake then top it with the second layer.
- Spread the rest of the frosting on the top layer and all around the cake. Then sprinkle some ground cinnamon on the top.
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