recipe · 0 min · serves 4
Carrot Cake
How much does carrot cake cost?
About €2.28 per serving — €9.12 for all 4 servings at typical UK supermarket prices, roughly 2527 kcal a serving.
Ingredients
- 450ml vegetable oil
- 400g all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 550ml white sugar
- 5 eggs egg
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 500g carrot
- 150g walnuts
- 200g cream cheese
- 150g white sugar
- 100g butter
Method
- For the carrot cake, preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3. Grease and line a 26cm/10in springform cake tin.
- Mix all of the ingredients for the carrot cake, except the carrots and walnuts, together in a bowl until well combined. Stir in the carrots and walnuts.
- Spoon the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then carefully remove the cake from the tin and set aside to cool completely on a cooling rack.
- Meanwhile, for the icing, beat the cream cheese, caster sugar and butter together in a bowl until fluffy. Spread the icing over the top of the cake with a palette knife.
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