Easy Carrot Cake and Cream Cheese Icing

This carrot cake is so easy to make you'll hardly believe it! Most of it done in a food processor in mere seconds. And the cream cheese icing is to die for!

Carrot Cake and Cream Cheese Icing
  • Degree of Difficulty: Very Easy
  • Cost: $$
  • Preparation Time: 10 minutes 
  • Cooking Time: 45 Minutes  
  • Yields: 8 - 12 portions
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  • By: Nicolas Steenhout

I've always been very fond of carrot cake, especially with cream cheese icing. This one is moist, and not overly sweet. A real keeper. The only "problem" is that it is all gone before you know it. Recipe adapted from Lynne Pope.

 
 

Recipe

Ingredients

Carrot Cake

  • 250 g (8 oz) Fresh Grated Carrots
  • 180 ml (3/4 cup) Crumbed Walnuts
  • 250 ml (1 cup) Raw Sugar
  • 250 ml (1 cup) Safflower Oil (also known as Sunflower)
  • 3 Eggs
  • 375 ml (1 1/2 cup) Self-Raising Flour
  • 5 ml (1 teaspoon) Baking Soda
  • 10 ml (2 teaspoons) Ground Cinnamon

Cream Cheese Icing

  • 250 g (8 oz) Cream Cheese (I like the Philadelphia brand, unflavoured)
  • 500 ml (2 cups) Icing Sugar
  • 15 ml (1 tablespoon) Butter
  • 30 ml (2 tablespoons) Lemon Juice

Mise En Place

  1. Pre-heat oven to 175 °C (350 °F).
  2. Grease an 8" cake tin.

Preparation

Cake

  1. Mix the grated carrots and crumbed walnuts in a large bowl.
  2. Place the sugar, oil and eggs in the food processor.
  3. Blend for 30 seconds.
  4. Add the flour, baking soda and cinnamon to the food processor.
  5. Blend for another 15 seconds.
  6. Mix in thoroughly with the carrots and walnuts in the bowl.
  7. Pour in the greased cake tin.
  8. Bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserte in the cake comes out dry and clean.
  9. Cool the cake in the tin for 15 minutes.
  10. Remove cake from the tin, and leave on a rack to finish cooling down

Icing

  1. Put all icing ingredients in the food processor.
  2. Blend well until the icing is smooth

Finition

  1. Put the icing on the cake
  2. Enjoy!

Photos

Photo of a recipe book
The family recipe book with the carrot cake recipe.

Grating carrots
Grating 250 g of carrots in a large bowl.

Carrots and walnuts
Carrots with walnuts, set aside.

Sugar, oil and eggs before blending
Sugar, oil and eggs in food processor before blending.

Sugar, oil and eggs after blending
Sugar, oil and eggs after blending for 30 seconds.

Adding flour, cinamon and baking soda to egg, oil and sugar mix
Adding the flour, cinnamon and baking soda to the mix of eggs, oil and sugar.

Finishing the cake mix
Adding the blended ingredients to the grated carrots and walnuts

Cake mix in a tin
The cake mix in a greased cake tin.

Icing ingredients before blending
Icing sugar, butter, cream cheese and lemon juice before blending in food processor.

Finished cream cheese icing
Finished cream cheese icing, ready to use

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