Carrot Loaf Cake!
An easy carrot loaf cake with cream cheese frosting - easy, delicious, and the perfect easy bake!
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 175 ml sunflower oil
- 3 large eggs
- 200 g light brown sugar
- 250 g grated carrots
- 100 g raisins/walnuts ((optional))
- Zest of 1 orange
- 200 g self raising flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 125 g unsalted butter ((room temp))
- 125 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 250 g full-fat cream cheese
- Fondant carrots
- Chopped nuts
Instructions
- 1
Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan and grease and line your 2lb Loaf Tin!
- 2
Pour the sunflower oil & eggs into a large bowl and add the sugar – mix lightly and combine.
- 3
Add the grated carrots, raisins/nuts, and orange zest and fold through to combine.
- 4
Add the flour, bicarbonate, mixed spice, ginger, cinnamon & nutmeg and mix again – try not to over mix!
- 5
Pour the mixture into the tin, and bake in the oven for 55-60 minutes. Sometimes it can take a little longer so test with a skewer!
- 6
Once baked, leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, and then cool on a wire rack. If your cake doesn't come out, it may not have finished baking, or you didn't line the tin well enough!
- 7
Beat your butter on its own for a few minutes to loosen it.
- 8
Add in the icing sugar, and beat again - I beat this for about 5 minutes, to make it really smooth.
- 9
Make sure your cream cheese doesn't have any excess water - I find it best to add it to a bowl first just to make sure.
- 10
Add in the cream cheese, and vanilla and beat. At first, it may look a little weird, but just keep on beating. I end up beating it for a few minutes - it can go through a lumpy stage first, but eventually, the lumps beat out and it's smooth and thick!
- 11
Once beaten - it should be lovely and thick.
- 12
Slather your cream cheese frosting over the top of the cake!
- 13
Decorate with chopped nuts, carrot decorations or whatever!!
- 14
Enjoy!