Classic carrot cake
Serves
2-4
A carrot cake recipe for bakers of any experience level.
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Ingredients
½ cup
all-purpose flour
½ tsp
baking powder
½ tsp
cinnamon, ground
½ tsp
allspice, ground
½ tsp
ginger, ground
¼ tsp
nutmeg, ground
½ tsp
salt
¼ cup
coconut oil
1
egg
⅔ cup
carrots, freshly grated
¼
toasted walnuts, chopped
½ cup
sugar
Icing
½ cup
cream cheese
4 tbsp
unsalted butter
¼ tsp
vanilla
⅔ cup
icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 and grease a small spring pan with pam or butter, if you have two of the same size, grease two.
- In one bowl you'll whisk all your dry ingredients together, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, ginger and salt. In a separate bowl whisk together sugar, an egg and melted coconut oil.
- Stir in the dry ingredients and gently fold in the carrots. It's important to use freshly grated carrots instead of the bagged pre-shredded carrots because it makes the cake moister! Pour half of the batter in the pan and bake for 20 minutes, repeat with the second half and let them cool.
- While the cake is baking, grab an electric mixer and whip the softened butter and cream cheese together, add vanilla and icing sugar and beat until combined.
- Chop your walnuts first then lightly toast them on your stovetop, this allows them to get crunchier and raw-ish walnuts on a cake is definitely not ideal!
- Last but not least, ice the bottom layer, then the top and the sides (Pulls finished cake from the fridge). Then sprinkle the walnuts on top!