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Carrot Cake I

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Drink, Baked

Tags: recipes for cake, recipes for dessert, recipes using baking powder, recipes using brown sugar, recipes using butter, recipes using carrot, recipes using cream cheese, recipes using powdered sugar, recipes with images, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ACarrot_Cake_I)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ACarrot%20Cake%20I&oldid=4516883

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

Frosting

  • 100 g icing sugar
  • 50 g cream cheese or creamy cottage cheese
  • 25 g margarine or butter
  • 2.5 ml vanilla essence

Cake

  • 225 g flour
  • 225 g grated carrot
  • 150 g margarine or butter
  • 250 g brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 egg
  • Raisins (optional)
  • Nuts (optional)

Directions

Frosting

  1. Mix all ingredients together.

Cake

  1. Melt the butter and sugar together, then mix in the dry ingredients.
  2. Beat the egg and add it to the batter.
  3. Stir in raisins and nuts until everything is well combined.
  4. Bake at 180°C (355°F) for about 50 minutes in a greased tin with greaseproof paper on the bottom.
  5. When cake has cooled, top with cream cheese frosting.