Cream Cheese Icing For Carrot Cake Recipe
Cream Cheese Icing For Carrot Cake Recipe
Author: Cynthia Lee
Nutrition Information
- Serves: 2
- Calories: 280
- Fat: 18 g
- Saturated fat: 6 g
- Carbohydrates: 29 g
- Sugar: 21 g
- Sodium: 160 mg
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 45 mg
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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A carrot cake with cream cheese icing is one of the most popular cakes around the globe. This rich flavoured cake can be served as a snack at tea, and can also be used as a genuine traditional wedding cake.
Ingredients
- Carrot Cake:
- Eggs – 3
- Butter milk – ¾ cup
- Vegetable oil - ¾ cup
- White sugar - 1 ½ cup
- Vanilla extracts - 2 tea spoons
- Ground cinnamon - 2 tea spoons
- Nutmeg - ⅛ tea spoon
- Salt - ¼ tbsp
- All-purpose flour - 2 cups
- Baking soda - 2 tea spoons
- Shredded carrots - 2 cups
- Flaked coconut - 1 cup
- Chopped walnuts - 1 cup
- Pineapple with juice - 8 oz
- Raisins - 1 cup
- Orange juice - 1 cup
- Icing:
- Softened cream cheese - 8 oz
- Softened butter - ½ cup
- Confectioners’ sugar - 3 cups
- Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon
- Icing sugar – 1 cup
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, which is equal to 175 degrees C.
- Take a 9x13 inch pan, and grease and flour it.
- Put the raisins into the sauce pan and then cover them all with the orange juice.
- Boil the raisins covered with the orange juice.
- Drain out all the juice in a bowl, and set the raisins aside.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- In a large bowl, combine the eggs, butter milk, oil, sugar and vanilla.
- Mix it all together. When its done, add the flour mixture and mix it together well.
- In a medium bowl, combine your carrots, coconut, walnuts, pineapple and raisins.5
- Add your carrot mixture into the butter mixture and mix it well together.
- Pour the mixture in the greased pan, and bake it in the preheated oven for 25 to 35 minutes at least.
- Insert a toothpick in the centre of the cake, and if it comes out clean, it means that your cake is perfectly baked.
- Take it out of the oven, and allow it to cool.
- To make icing, take a large bowl and beat the softened cream cheese with butter until it mix up smooth.
- Add vanilla extracts in the mixture and continue beating it.
- Pour the icing sugar in it – one-third at a time – and continue beating until the mixture becomes smooth.
- Once the cake has been cooled down, ice the cake properly with the mixture, and refrigerate it.
- Serve it as your need.
