Carrot Walnut Cake
Traditional homemade carrot walnut cake with subtle spice flavor, super moist crumb, and finished off with velvety cream cheese frosting.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Plain Flour
- 2 cups Carrots
- 1 cup Oil
- 1 cup Chopped Walnuts
- 3 Eggs
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cup Caster Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Esscence
- ½ tsp Cinnamon Powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Bicarb Soda
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 250 g Cream Cheese
- ½ cup Icing Sugar
- 1 tbsp Milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 180°C and prepare a baking pan lined with baking paper.
- In a mixing bowl add eggs, brown sugar, caster sugar, oil, milk and vanilla essence. Using a whisk mix well.
- Grate carrots using hand grater and add them to wet mixture, along with walnuts.
- Add flour, baking powder, bicarb soda and salt. Using a spatula mix well until batter in smooth.
- Pour the batter in the prepared tin and bake it for 35-40 minutes until the skewer comes out clean.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- In a mixing bowl add cream cheese, icing sugar and milk. Using a electric mixer, mix until frosting is smooth.
- Spread the frosting over cool cake and sprinkle chopped wanuts over it.