Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Baking and Desserts | American cuisine
⏳ Time
1 hour
🥕 Ingredients
14
🍽️ Servings
8
Description
You can substitute walnuts with pecans. Sour cream can be replaced with heavy cream. You can add ginger to the spices. Designed for a 20 cm diameter pan.
Ingredients
- Butter - 3.5 oz
- Eggs - 3 pieces
- Sugar - 5.3 oz
- Brown Sugar - 4.2 oz
- Carrots - 8.8 oz
- Walnuts - 3.5 oz
- Applesauce - 5.3 oz
- All-purpose flour - 6.3 oz
- Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon
- Baking Soda - ½ teaspoon
- Cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
- Cream Cheese - 10.6 oz
- Sour Cream 25% - 3.5 oz
- Powdered Sugar - 5.3 oz
Step by Step guide
Step 1
Grate the carrots using a fine grater. Chop the walnuts with a knife or in a blender, but not too finely.
Step 2
Prepare the baking pan: grease with butter and dust with flour.
Step 3
Melt the butter (for the batter - 150 grams) and let it cool.
Step 4
Beat the eggs with brown and white sugar.
Step 5
Mix the cooled butter from step 3 into the eggs and beat again.
Step 6
Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon. Sift into the mixture from step 5 and mix again.
Step 7
Add the walnuts, carrots, and applesauce - mix everything together.
Step 8
Pour into the pan. Place in the oven. Bake at 356°F for about an hour.
Step 9
While the cake is baking, prepare the frosting: Mix the cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Add softened butter and powdered sugar - mix well.
Step 10
Remove the pan from the oven, cut the cake in half horizontally. Allow the layers to cool.
Step 11
Assemble the cake: spread frosting on the bottom layer, place the second layer on top, and add more frosting. You can decorate the top with nuts and fresh berries.
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