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Moist Carrot Cake Thermomix recipe | Kids Eat by Shanai #carrotcake #moistcarrotcake #carrotcakethermomix

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing


  • Total Time: 1 hour
  • Yield: 1 cake 1x

Description

A super moist recipe made easily in your Thermomix, or even if you don’t have one and topped with a zingy cream cheese icing.


Ingredients

Scale

CAKE

  • 200g carrot
  • 100g olive oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 100g rapadura sugar
  • 220g plain flour
  • 2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • pinch sea salt
  • 425g tin pineapple pieces, drained
  • 80g desiccated coconut

ICING

  • 250g cream cheese, softened
  • 125g unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ lemon, juiced & zested
  • ¼ cup icing sugar

Instructions

THERMOMIX METHOD

Pre heat oven to 180°C.

Place carrot into TM mixing bowl and grate 5 sec / speed 6.  Add oil, eggs, vanilla, sugar, flour, bicarb soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and mix 5 sec / speed 5.  Scrape down sides of bowl.

Add pineapple and coconut and mix 10 sec / REVERSE / speed 5.

Pour into a greased 24cm cake tin and bake 45-60 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.

Allow cake to cool in tin for 5 minutes then onto a wire rack.

NON THERMOMIX METHOD

Pre heat oven to 180°C.

Grate carrot, then add to a bowl along with the oil, eggs, vanilla, sugar and whisk to combine.

In a separate large bowl sift and mix together the flour, bicarb soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.  Pour in the wet ingredients and stir to combine.  Stir in the pineapple and coconut, then pour into a greased 24cm cake tin and bake 45-60 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.

Allow cake to cool in tin for 5 minutes then onto a wire rack.

  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 45 minutes