My mom really makes the best carrot cake. Even as a child, when carrot cake wasn’t the most enticing dessert option, her carrot cake would gather crowds at family reunions. And that’s how I developed such a liking to the dessert that apparently comes straight from medieval times. This rendition is dense and moist, and you’ll only need a small slice to take you to carrot cake heaven.
PrintCarrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 70 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 3 cups of flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cup grapeseed oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup aquafaba or 1 cup applesauce
- 1 cup crushed pineapple, drained
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped and lightly floured
- 1/2 cup raisins, lightly floured
For the Frosting:
- 250g cream cheese
- 2 cups confectioner’s sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
To Assemble (optional):
- Chopped toasted walnuts
- Dehydrated diced pineapples
- Dehydrated carrot ribbons
- Toasted coconut
Instructions
For the Cake:
Preheat oven to 350หF (175หC) and line a round cake pan with parchment paper. In a mixing bowl, place the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Mix well and set aside. In another large mixing bowl, mix the oil, the sugar and the aquafaba or applesauce. Add the pineapple, carrots, walnuts and raisins, and mix well. Add the flour mixture slowly, incorporating well as you go. Place the mixture in the round cake pan, transfer to the oven and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven, let rest in the pan, until cooled. Remove from the pan, let cool completely. The cake is then ready to frost.
For the Frosting:
Beat the cream cheese and butter together into a cream. Add the confectioner’s sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, and integrate as you go. Add the vanilla, blend until you obtain a smooth consistency. Frost the cake, decorate to your taste and enjoy. Bon appรฉtit!
Keywords: cake, carrots, cream cheese
Gรขteau aux carottes avec glaรงage au fromage ร la crรจme
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 70 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 portions 1x
Ingredients
Pour le gรขteau:
- 3 tasses de farine
- 3 c. ร thรฉ de poudre ร pรขte
- 3/4 c. ร thรฉ de bicarbonate de soude
- 1/4 c. ร thรฉ de sel de mer
- 1 c. ร thรฉ de cannelle
- 1 1/2 tasse d’huile de coconut ou vรฉgรฉtale
- 2 tasses de sucre
- 3/4 tasse d’aquafaba
- 1 tasse d’ananas broyรฉs, รฉgouttรฉs
- 2 tasses de carottes rรขpรฉes
- 1 tasse de noix, hachรฉes et enfarinรฉes lรฉgรจrement
- 1/2 tasse de raisins sec, enfarinรฉs lรฉgรจrement
Pour le glaรงage:
- 250g de fromage ร la crรจme vรฉgรฉ
- 2 tasses de sucre ร glacer
- 2 c. ร soupe de beurre
- 1 c. ร thรฉ de vanille
Pour l’assemblage (en option):
- Noix hachรฉes
- Ananas dรฉshydratรฉs
- Rubans de carottes dรฉshydratรฉs
- Coconut rรดti
Instructions
Pour le gรขteau:
Prรฉchauffer le four ร 350หF (175หC) et recouvrir un moule rond de papier parchemin. Dans un bol ร mรฉlanger, placer la farine, la poudre ร pรขte, le bicarbonate de soude, le sel et la cannelle. Bien mรฉlanger et rรฉserver. Dans un autre grand bol, mรฉlanger l’huile, le sucre et l’aquafaba ou la compote de pomme. Ajouter les ananas, les carottes, les noix, et les raisins. Mรฉlanger. Ajouter le mรฉlange sec un peu ร la fois, en incorporant aprรจs chaque addition. Verser le mรฉlange dans le moule ร gรขteau, placer au four et cuire pendant une heure 10 minutes, ou jusqu’ร ce qu’un cure-dents insรฉrรฉ au centre du gรขteau en ressorte propre. Retirer du four et laisser refroidir dans le moule. Retirer du moule et laisser refroidir complรจtement. Lorsque le gรขteau est complรจtement refroidi, il est temps de le glacer.
Pour le glaรงage:
Battre le fromage ร la crรจme et le beurre en crรจme. Ajouter le sucre ร glacer une demie tasse ร la fois, et bien incorporer. Ajouter la vanille et battre jusqu’ร l’obtention d’un glaรงage crรฉmeux. Glacer le gรขteau et dรฉvorer. Bon appรฉtit!
Keywords: gรขteau, carottes, fromage ร la crรจme