Easy carrot cake!
Why the hell not? It’s carrot, it’s healthy then isn’t it? 😉 and everyone loves a carrot cake I’m sure.
And this is the Best carrot cake! – I promise!
This is possibly the easiest one you will ever make. It’s so easy, simple and I promise it’s so worth it!
If you want you can easily leave leave the icing off if you like, but it is VERY nice with it, yum!
The Ingredients for your Carrot Cake
It’s a really simple cake but oh so delicious
These are the ingredients (full details on the recipe card at the bottom)
Moist Carrot Cake?
Please please forget those old dry carrot cakes, you know the ones that fall apart as they have NO moisture?
This is so moist and soft textured – delicious!
And it’ll keep moist for a few days in the tin or in the fridge if you’ve got icing on it without any problem. No drying out here!
The secret to this moist carrot cake is it’s made with vegetable oil, sunflower in fact!
This also means there’s no creaming of the butter & sugar – winning!!
The main reason is the use of oil rather than another fat, somehow it retains the moistness.
Look at how glossy it is
Carrot Cake Icing
If you’re trying to be good ditch the icing.
The cake is so good, it’s made from cream cheese and icing sugar – yum.
But you can do without it? – but it’s GOOD with the icing too!
I’ll leave that decision to you.
The topping is a lovely mix of Cream Cheese, butter and icing sugar, it’s not too sweet at all
Enjoy and let me know how you go, please drop me a comment and let me know if you think it’s the Best carrot cake?! ever?!
I’ll tell you something for nothing, Pinterest loves it! Like really loves it!
So many lovely lovely comments
Other Vegetable Cakes
I’m really interested in vegetables in cakes. Actually next I fancy trying to make a parsnip cake?
Have you ever tried? If so let me know your recipe….
I already have Brownies made with courgettes have a look!
You can also use black beans in a cake (yes really!), it really is amazing , check out the Vegan Chocolate Cake
Have fun baking! I love to bake, do you, only issue I face is that I can’t resist eating it?
These days I tend to bake for friends and family and give it away!
It’s the safest way for my waist band
Thanks Clare x
Easy Loaf Cakes
And I love a loaf cake – check out these beauties
Easy carrot cake
Ingredients
- 150 ml sunflower oil
- 180 g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon never tried with mixed spice but a little 'birdy' tells me it's good
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 carrots grated - medium/large whatever
- 110 g soft brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 90 g golden syrup
- ICING
- 100 g cream cheese or light philly
- 50 g butter
- 250 g icing sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon optional
Instructions
- Put all the cake ingredients in a bowl (except sunflower oil) and mix until well combined (not the icing parts)
- Then add oil in 2 lots and mix again
- Pour into lined 8 inch x 8 inch tray. Or a 2llb (900g) Loaf tin (with a liner or lined)
- Bake at 180°C for approx 25 to 30 mins Approx. Or 30-40 mins if it's a loaf.
- Leave to cool in tin for 30 mins and tip out.
- Icing -
- Cream together butter and cream cheese, until smooth
- Slowly add icing sugar and cinnamon
- Spread on top of cake and cut to desired size.
Penguin_98
I made this and put an extra egg in and half the amount of oil. It was absolutely perfect, never had a cake so moist and delicious! Thank you for this amazing recipe 🙂
Clare x
Sounds perfect x
Marti Mcvey
I almost forgot the carrots but I remembered last minute can’t wait to try eating this currently in oven working on the icing now I added coconut walnuts and hazelnuts and some chocolate drops as I have a sweet tooth
college Brawl
Wow, this looks incredible! I’m always on the lookout for easy and delicious recipes, and this carrot cake definitely fits the bill. Can’t wait to give it a try and impress my family and friends. Thanks for sharing!
Amanda Page
Definitely going to bake this and can’t wait 😛
Julie
This is a lovely recipe. Will definitely be making it again. Family loved it
Clare x
Thanks Julie x
Addy Day
Made this recipe a few times and it never fails to impress!! Excellent way to use up carrots. Simple and not overly complicated, but tastes as good (if not better tbh) as any other carrot cake I’ve tried.
Carmen
Delicious carrot cake! I followed the tip from a previous reviewer and halved the amount of oil and used 3 eggs. I also used coconut nectar (as I don’t like golden syrup), halved the amount of sugar and added 100g chopped dates.
Baked in an 8″ round tin, it was perfect for us 🙂
Clare x
sounds great x
MrsB
I made this yesterday: it came out wonderfully moist and was so much quicker than the recipe I was using before, so my carrot-cake-loving kids are delighted they can now have it more often! Plus no nuts, so suitable for school lunch boxes. I used (lots of) mixed spice rather than just cinammon, it worked well.
Clare x
So pleased to hear this – thanks very much for your comment x