Super Moist Carrot Cake. Excellent but the printed recipe is a little too moist. I made it to a T the first time, and the cake was good but a bit oily. For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend.
You can have Super Moist Carrot Cake using 20 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Super Moist Carrot Cake
- You need 3 of eggs room temperature.
- You need 3/4 cup of buttermilk.
- You need 3/4 cup of coconut oil.
- You need 1,5 cup of white sugar (less sweet:1 1/8 cup).
- It’s 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- You need 1/4 tsp of ground nutmeg.
- You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
- You need 2 cups of all purpose flour (250 gr).
- You need 2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 2 cups of shredded carrot (small shredded) 240 gram.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of desiccated coconut.
- Prepare 1 cup of chopped walnut.
- Prepare 226 gr of canned crushed pineapple (I don’t use the syrup). From canned pineapple chunks, i chopped to smaller size as I cannot find canned crushed pineapple.
- Prepare of Cream Cheese Frosting.
- Prepare 1 (250 gr) of Philadelphia Cream Cheese.
- Prepare 115 gr of unsalted butter.
- You need 3/4 cup of icing sugar (original recipe is 2 cups but i like it not too sweet) sifted.
- It’s 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare of Lemon juice/zest (optional).
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Super Moist Carrot Cake step by step
Preheat oven 175 celcius. Grease and flour 2 8” round pan.
In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside..
In a large bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Add flour mixture and mix well.
In a medium bowl, combine shredded carrots, coconut, walnuts, pineapple.
Using a large wooden spoon or a very heavy whisk, add carrot mixture to batter and fold in well..
Divide the batter into 2 portions. Pour each portion into prepared pan, and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes. Check with toothpick..
Allow the cake to cool before assembling the cake with cream cheese frosting.
For cream cheese frosting: beat cream cheese and butter with mixer until creamy. Mix in the vanilla extract and the icing sugar gradually. Add lemon 🍋 juice/zest if using. Tips: if the frosting is too sweet, lemon juice will balance the sweetness and add a nice flavour too..
Assemble the cake: take half of the frosting, spread it on 1 cooled cake. Put another cake on top and spread the remaining frosting all over the cake. Keep in the fridge for few hours before serving.
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