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Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A moist, warmly spiced carrot cake with walnuts and a generous cream cheese frosting. Letting the cake layers cool completely before frosting stops the cream cheese frosting melting and sliding straight off the warm sponge.

Total time
65 min
Prep
25 min
Cook
40 min
Difficulty
medium
Cuisine
American
vegetarian

Ingredients

2 cupsplain flour
2 cupscaster sugar
2 tspbicarbonate of soda
2 tspcinnamon
1 tspsalt
1 1/2 cupsvegetable oil
4eggs
3 cupsgrated carrot
1 cupwalnuts, chopped
400gcream cheese
200gbutter, softened
3 cupsicing sugar
1 tspvanilla extract

Instructions

1

Whisk dry ingredients. Beat in oil and eggs. Fold in carrot and walnuts.

2

Divide between 2 greased 20cm cake tins.

3

Bake at 175°C for 35-40 minutes. Cool completely.

4

Beat cream cheese and butter. Add icing sugar and vanilla.

5

Sandwich and frost the cake layers. Refrigerate 1 hour before serving.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories
2849
Protein
28.2g
Fat
200.1g
Carbs
250.6g
Fiber
6.3g
Sodium
1555mg

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