Best Ever Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Here it is! I’ve bowed to public pressure to share my most requested cake recipe and most popular frosting.

And … *drum roll please* … it’s the first vegetable to appear on this website. Thank you, thank you, hold your applause.

No I don’t have a fever, smartie-pants. Ha ha.

Anyhoo, this is the super-moist and fluffy carrot cake that has converted carrot cake haters and induced the phrase ‘mouthgasm’.

I feel like a bit of a cheater, because it’s seriously the easiest and most foolproof cake ever: one bowl, beat it, you’re done. And once I paired it with the Creamcheese Frosting in the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, it was a match made in heaven.

These babies have been whipped up for cake stalls, bake days, group study sessions and afternoon teas.

Go forth. Share the carrot cake love. It’s got vegetables in it, so it’s totes good for you

Makes 12 cupcakes and one loaf

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You Will Need

1 cup Brown Sugar

1 cup Vegetable Oil

3 Large Eggs

Pinch Salt

1/2 teaspoon Bicarb Soda

2 cups Self Raising Flour

2 cups finely grated Carrot (around 4 large carrots)

1/2 cup Walnuts, finely chopped

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

1 teaspoon Nutmeg

Cream Cheese Frosting

From Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook

300g Icing sugar

125g Cream Cheese, cold

50g Unsalted Butter, room temp

DIRECTIONS

Cake

Heat oven to 180 degrees celsius.

Beat sugar and oil until thick, then add 1 egg at a time and keep beating for a few more minutes.

Add salt, bicarb soda, carrots, flour, walnuts and spices.

Mix with wooden spoon until all combined.

Put batter in well greased loaf pan or tin and bake for 30-40 minutes, or until light golden and cake springs back when touched in the middle.

Frosting

Beat the icing sugar and butter together with an electric mixer until well mixed.

Add the cream cheese in one go and beat until it is completely incorporated.

Turn the mixer up to medium high. Continue beating until the frosting is light and fluffy, at least 5 minutes. Do not overbeat, as it can quickly become runny.