Our best-ever carrot cake recipe

• doses: 12 servings
• tempo ativo: 40 minutes
• tempo total: 1 hour 55 minutes

Ingredientes

225 mL sunflower oil, plus extra to grease

225 g light muscovado sugar

4 medium eggs

225 g self-raising flour

1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda

1 1/2 tsp. each mixed spice, ground cinnamon and ground ginger

150 g sultanas

200 g carrots, coarsely grated

50-75 g walnuts or pecans, roughly chopped

175 g unsalted butter, very soft

1 tsp. vanilla extract

275 g full-fat cream cheese, at room temperature

200 g icing sugar

Carrot decorations, optional, available from larger Sainsbury's stores (£1.55 for 12)

Instruções

Preheat oven to 170°C (150°C fan) mark 3. Grease and line the base and sides of a round 20.5cm cake tin with parchment paper. Put the oil, sugar and eggs into a large bowl and whisk together until smooth.

Add the flour, soda and spices to the bowl and mix to combine. Stir in the sultanas, carrots and nuts. Scrape mixture into the prepared tin, level and bake for 1hr 5min-1hr 15min or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool for 5min in tin, then remove from tin and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.

To make the icing, in a large bowl beat the butter and vanilla until completely smooth, then add the room-temperature cream cheese and mix to combine. Sift over the icing sugar and mix (carefully at first, as otherwise there will be clouds of icing sugar) until smooth and fluffy.

Cut the cooled cake in half horizontally through the middle. Use half the icing to sandwich the halves back together and place cake on a cake stand/plate. Spread remaining icing over top of the cake and lay on the carrot decorations, if using. Serve in slices.

Informação Nutricional

• Calorias: 759
• Gordura Total: 36g
• Gordura Saturada: 14g
• Carboidratos Totais: 59g
• Fibra Alimentar: 2g
• Açúcares Totais: 45g
• Proteína: 6g