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Super Simple Carrot Cake
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Super Simple Carrot Cake

This Super Simple Carrot Cake is a wonderfully easy peasy recipe. It's incredibly light and moist, and the olive oil gives it an amazing extra dimension. Although it takes a while in the oven, the prep is minimal, and it tastes and smells so good!
Course Cake, Dessert, Pudding, Snack
Cuisine British
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes
Servings 16 slices
Calories 378kcal
Author Eb Gargano

Ingredients

Cake:

  • 350 g self raising flour sieved
  • 325 g dark soft brown sugar sieved
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 250 g carrots grated (use the coarse side of the grater)
  • 75 g walnuts roughly chopped
  • 4 medium eggs
  • 200 ml olive oil (See Note 1)
  • 4 tablespoons milk

Frosting (optional):

  • 180 g full fat cream cheese (I use Philadelphia Original)
  • 30 g icing sugar sieved
  • 25 g walnuts finely chopped
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Super Simple Cake:

  • Preheat the oven to 180C / 160C fan / gas mark 4 / 350F. Grease and line the bottom and sides of a 22cm / 9inch round cake tin with a double layer of greaseproof paper. (See above for step-by-step instructions.)
  • Mix together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, roughly chopped walnuts and grated carrots in a large bowl.
  • Beat together the eggs, olive oil and milk in a large jug.
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients slowly, stirring to make sure all the flour is incorporated.
  • Tip the cake mixture into the lined cake tin and cook for 1h - 1h15, or until a skewer comes out clean. (If you don't own a skewer, use a teaspoon handle instead!)

Easy Cream Cheese Frosting (optional):

  • Simply mix the cream cheese and icing sugar together and spread it on the top of the cake. Sprinkle the finely chopped walnuts on the top to decorate.

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Notes

  1. I like to use extra virgin olive oil, as it gives a really wonderful depth of flavour to this cake, however - unless you are a big fan of extra virgin olive oil (like me!) - you may prefer a lighter olive oil. Alternatively you can use sunflower or rapeseed (canola) oil, if you prefer.
  2. Suitable for freezing - if undecorated.
  3. Nutrition information is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

Nutrition

Calories: 378kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 71mg | Potassium: 164mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 23g | Vitamin A: 2827IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 56mg | Iron: 1mg