Carrot Cake (with Cheese Frosting)

Here's a very easy-to-make tasty carrot cake that I made for someone's birthday.
The only tough part is preparing the ingredients as the grating of carrots takes pretty much efforts and time.
Other steps are basically just whipping all together with an electric mixer XD


If you want a healthier choice, omit the cheese frosting and it will still taste as good!


In this demo, I baked 2 times for this measurement as I only have 1 square pan. And I actually used 1 part of the cake, halve it & create a rectangular cake rather than a square one as a birthday cake. The other part that I baked second time was "topless", without the cream frosting and my family loves it too! :)

Carrot Cake Ingredients:

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour (plus more for pan)
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp salt
• 1½ cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups grated carrots
• ½ cup mashed pineapple
• 1½ cup walnuts (chopped)

Cheese Frosting Ingredients:

• 16 oz cream cheese
• ½ cup unsalted butter (plus more for pan)
• 25g powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Line the bottom of the 7" pans with parchment paper. Then grease the paper and dust it with flour.
Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Step 1: Combine the sugar, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a mixing bowl. Set aside.

Step 2: Beat the eggs and vegetable oil in another mixing bowl, using a mixer, whisk till smooth & fluffy.

Step 3: Sift in all the pre-mixed dry ingredients into the egg mixture. Continue to whisk well.

Step 4: Add in grated carrots, mashed pineapples and chopped walnuts. Mix thoroughly.

Step 5: Pour batter into baking tray, bake for 30mins. When done, cool the cake for 10mins before removing.

I trimmed the edges of the cake before proceeding...

Steps to make Cream Frosting
1) Set cream cheese at room temperature and whisk it in a mixing bowl. Add lemon juice and vanilla extract and whisk till creamy.

2) Gradually add in tablespoon by tablespoon of the powdered sugar till the consistency of a frosting cream has reached.

3) Spread the cream onto one side of each piece of the halved cake. Sandwiched them together and cover the entire cake with more cream cheese frosting. And you are done!

 

Well, because it is meant to be a birthday cake for someone ^^, so I combined my other recipe - the langue de chat for the decorations. Kinda a little messy, still trying to improve on my cake decorating skills though. HAHA!