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Best Ever Carrot Cake

Name: Best Ever Carrot Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: ¾ cup Edmonds Self Raising Flour; 1 tsp mixed spice; ½ tsp ground cinnamon; ½ tsp ground ginger; 1 tsp Edmonds Baking Soda; ¾ cup Edmonds Wholemeal Flour; 1 cup Chelsea Raw Sugar or Chelsea Organic Coconut Sugar; ¾ cup chopped walnuts; 2 cups grated carrot; ½ cup sultanas or raisins; 2 Tbsp desiccated coconut; 3 large eggs; 1 cup rice bran oil or Simply Canola Oil; 1 tsp vanilla essence; Cream Cheese Icing; 50g butter, softened; 125g Meadow Fresh Cream Cheese, chopped; 1½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar

4.6

Preparation

15 mins

Bake

50 mins

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

Best ever carrot cake recipe - so moist, so delicious, so hard to resist. Enjoy!

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Ingredients
Method

Ingredients

¾ cup Edmonds Self Raising Flour
1 tsp mixed spice
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground ginger
1 tsp Edmonds Baking Soda
¾ cup Edmonds Wholemeal Flour
1 cup Chelsea Raw Sugar or Chelsea Organic Coconut Sugar
¾ cup chopped walnuts
2 cups grated carrot
½ cup sultanas or raisins
2 Tbsp desiccated coconut
3 large eggs
1 cup rice bran oil or Simply Canola Oil
1 tsp vanilla essence

Cream Cheese Icing

50g butter, softened
125g Meadow Fresh Cream Cheese, chopped
1½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar

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Organic Coconut Sugar

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Icing Sugar

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Raw Sugar

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Reviews

100

What did you think of this recipe?

helen fullerton

Great

Lee Healey

Love it

Kathryn Needham

100% the best ever carrot cake.

Soso

Stands up to the name

Tracie

I have made this twice recently, both times it was thoroughly enjoyed, however there was quite a bit of excess oil left in the cake container after it had been eaten. Any ideas as to why this happened?

Bridget

Used this recipe since I was a student. Never ceases to impress.

Great recipe. Easy to follow, easy to make. Timing was correct. Icing quantity was spot on. Tasted great and got lots of compliments. Will be making again :)

Unknown

Loved it. Had know made it many times, for friends and family. Thank you

Unknown

Brilliant never fails.

Unknown

I have made this recipe many times. For a change try replacing the carrots with beetroot. Yum!!

Method

Pre-heat oven to 180°C bake (160°C fan-forced). Grease a 23cm cake tin (6cm deep) and line with baking paper.

Sift Edmonds Self Raising Flour, spices and Edmonds Baking Soda into a large mixing bowl. Stir in Edmonds Wholemeal Flour and Chelsea Raw Sugar or Chelsea Organic Coconut Sugar. Add walnuts, carrot, raisins and coconut and stir until combined.

In a separate bowl, whisk eggs, Simply Canola Oil and vanilla. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until just combined.

Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the surface. Bake for 40-50 minutes or until cooked (when a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean). Remove from oven, cool for 10 minutes then remove from the cake tin and peel away the paper. Swirl icing over the cake once cold.

Cream Cheese Icing
Beat Tararua Butter and cream cheese together until combined. Stir in Chelsea Icing Sugar, then beat mixture on high speed until light and fluffy.