This carrot cake recipe is delicious, moist and ready in under an hour. It’s at the top of our ‘favourites’ list and the perfect go-to for a sweet teatime treat.
The carrots and light muscovado sugar help make it a moist, flavourful bake and add sweetness - all the qualities we look for when creating our classic cake recipes. It's topped with a rich, moreish cream cheese icing, and is best enjoyed with your friends and a cuppa.
Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan 160°C, gas mark 4). Grease and line a 20cm (8inch) cake tin with baking parchment.
Step 2
Whisk the oil and sugar together, then whisk in the eggs one a time, followed by the vanilla extract.
Ingredients for this step
250mlSunflower Oil
225gBillington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar
3Free range large eggs
1 tspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
Step 3
Gently fold in the flour and spices, followed by the grated carrots. Mix gently until combined, then turn into the prepared tin.
Ingredients for this step
225gAllinson's Self-Raising White Flour
2 tspCinnamon
1/2 tspGround Nutmeg
250gGrated carrots
Step 4
Bake for 40 mins until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Step 5
For the topping, beat together softened butter, icing sugar and vanilla to a soft buttercream texture. Then gently fold in the cream cheese. Chill the topping in the fridge for 10-15 minutes if it is too runny. Meanwhile, carefully cut your cake in half horizontally, sandwich together with half of the cream cheese mixture and spread the remainder on top. Finish with decorations of your choice. Walnuts work really well or alternatively you could pipe carrots with green and orange coloured buttercream icing.
Ingredients for this step
125gSilver Spoon Icing Sugar
250gCream cheese
125gUnsalted butter (softened)
1 tspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
Ingredients
MetricImperial
For the Cake
250mlSunflower oil
225gBillington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar
3Free range large eggs
225gAllinson's Self-Raising White Flour
250gGrated carrots
1 tspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
2 tspCinnamon
1/2 tspGround Nutmeg
For the Icing
125gSilver Spoon Icing Sugar
250gCream cheese
125gUnsalted butter (softened)
1 tspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
Utensils
20cm
10in round cake tin
Mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Nutritional information per 124g serving
Energy 531cal
Fat 36g
of which Saturates 12g
Carbohydrates 44g
of which Sugars 30g
Protein 5.9g
Salt 0.45g
29 Baker Ratings
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Made this cake twice tonight, first time I made the mistake of not testing it before taking it out of the oven after 40 minutes it was still raw in the middle. Made it again with a little longer in the oven and it was absolutely beautiful and enjoyed by everyone after dinner.
