Carrot cake with nuts, chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting
Moist and wonderful carrot cake with nuts, chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting
Equipment
- grater
- 2 medium size bowls
- 1 big bowl or stand mixer bowl
- stand mixer with a whisk or a hand mixer
- scale and measuring cups and spoons
- knife, spatula of big spoon
- chopping board
Ingredients
- 260 g wheat flour
- 1½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon or gingerbread spice
- 400 g carrots
- 4 eggs large
- 200 g caster sugar
- 150 g brown sugar or cane sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 300 ml oil
- 100 g milk chocolate chocolate chips or chopped
- 100 g nuts use the ones you like: pecan, hazelnuts or walnuts
Icing
- 300 g cream cheese you may use Philadelphia or the cheescake type
- 259 g mascarpone
- 3 Tbsp icing sugar or less, adjust to taste
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- for decoration: nuts, sprinkles, coconut shreds
Instructions
Dough
- Take a piece of parchment roughly the size of your baking pan and squeeze it well. Once you unfold it, it will be all wrinkled and a lot easier to line your pan. Once it's lined, set it aside.
- Sieve the flour, soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon into the mid-size bowl. Mix all well together.
- Peel and grate the carrots (fine mesh), transfer to the second bowl.
- Crack the eggs into the stand mixer bowl. Add the sugars and beat on high until everything is light and fluffy.
- Lower the speed and gradually add oil (slowly, in 3-4 parts), making sure it is well incorporated before the next turn. Mix in the vanilla extract.
- Add the grated carrots and chocolate chips, mix with the spatula.
- At the end, add the flour and dry ingredients mix from the bowl and blend everything quickly with the spatula.
- Przełóż masę do foremki i piecz około 40 minut w 180℃ - do suchego patyczka
Icing
- Mix together all the ingredients for the frosting until smooth.
- Once the cake has cooled completely, top it generously with the frosting. You may also decorate the top with halved nuts, marzipan carrots, lightly roasted coconut shreds or with sprinkles.