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🍰 Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

648 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• Carrots 350 g
• Walnut kernels 75 g
• Oranges 1 pcs
• Sunflower oil 225 ml
• Brown sugar 225 g
• Vanilla sugar 20 g
• Eggs 3 pcs
• Wheat flour, Type 405 275 g
• Baking powder 15 g
• Nutmeg, ground pinch
• Cinnamon 0.5 tsp
• Raisins 75 g
• Butter 50 g
• Icing sugar 125 g
• Cream cheese, plain 200 g
• Chocolate, white 30 g

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius using top and bottom heat.
2. 2. Peel the carrots and cut off the ends.
3. 3. Grate the carrots coarsely.
4. 4. Chop the walnuts coarsely.
5. 5. Rinse the orange thoroughly under hot water.
6. 6. Finely grate about one teaspoon of the orange zest.
7. 7. Cut the orange in half.
8. 8. Squeeze the juice from the orange halves.
9. 9. Mix the oil, sugar, vanilla sugar, and orange juice together in a bowl.
10. 10. Stir in the eggs one by one.
11. 11. Combine the flour, baking powder, and spices in a separate bowl.
12. 12. Add the flour mixture to the liquid batter.
13. 13. Fold the grated carrots into the batter.
14. 14. Fold the chopped walnuts into the batter.
15. 15. Fold the raisins into the batter.
16. 16. Grease a 26-centimeter springform pan.
17. 17. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
18. 18. Bake the cake in the oven for about 75 minutes.
19. 19. Let the cake cool in the pan for about 15 minutes after baking.
20. 20. Remove the cake from the pan and let it cool completely on a wire rack.
21. 21. Mix the butter, powdered sugar, cream cheese, and grated orange zest briefly in a bowl.
22. 22. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the cooled cake.
23. 23. Grate the chocolate coarsely.
24. 24. Garnish the cake with the grated chocolate.
25. 25. Serve the cake.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 648
• Protein: 11 g · Fett/Fat: 33 g · Carbs: 85 g