Name: Recipe: Yummy Classic carrot cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 43 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 300 g all purpose flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/4 tsp baking soda; 130 g oil; 2 big carrots (shredded); 80 g pineapple (crushed); 100 g castor sugar; 1 hand full raisins; 1 tsp cinnamon; 3/4 cup buttermilk; 2 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 1 hand full coconut flakes

Classic carrot cake. Nothing beats a classic carrot cake - this one has a touch of cinnamon and walnuts plus the obligatory cream cheese icing. This cake is a whopper, so make sure you have some hungry bunnies on hand. This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere.

You can cook Classic carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Classic carrot cake

Prepare 300 g of all purpose flour.
Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
It’s 130 g of oil.
Prepare 2 of big carrots (shredded).
You need 80 g of pineapple (crushed).
It’s 100 g of castor sugar.
It’s 1 of hand full raisins.
It’s 1 tsp of cinnamon.
It’s 3/4 cup of buttermilk.
Prepare 2 of eggs.
It’s 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
You need 1 of hand full coconut flakes.

This is the carrot cake that. Can you get more Classic than a Carrot Cake? This classic carrot cake is perfectly soft and moist. My Mama in law shared this carrot cake recipe with me and one of her friends shared it with her who inherited the recipe from her mother.

Classic carrot cake step by step

Pre-heat oven to 180degrees, grease and dust your baking tin set a side. In a medium bowl shift flour, baking powder, baking soda,cinnamon set a side. In a large bowl combine eggs, butter milk, oil, sugar, and vanilla essence mix very well..
Add flour mixture to the egg mixture and mix very well. In a medium bowl combine shredded carrots, coconut flakes, pineapple crushed and raisins……using a wooden spatula add carrot mixture to the batter, mix well, pour into your baking tin…..bake for 1hr 10mins or until a testing knife comes out clean……enjoy!.

This Classic Carrot Cake recipe uses crushed pineapple to give the cake a rich, moist texture. Smooth cream cheese frosting gives it just the right balance of sweetness. Classic Carrot Cake is something I have made over the years with mixed results. Sometimes it turned out dry and sometimes the carrots still tasted raw. Top this classic carrot cake with moreish icing and chopped walnuts or pecans.