Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

5 from 4 votes

No fuss, super easy carrot cake. Soft, fluffy and moist cake with cream cheese glazing. I adapted from my other carrot cake recipes to make this one with simpler ingredients. It's not overly sweet, do try!

Prep Time20

Cook Time50

Total Time1 10

Servings: slices

Author: Bea & Marco

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

1 ½ cup all purpose flour (195 g)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Wet Ingredients

3 cup grated carrots (270 g)
½ cup sugar (100 g)
½ cup brown sugar (80 g)
4 large eggs , room temperature
1 cup oil (250 ml)
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup chopped walnuts (60 g)

The Cream Cheese Glaze

6 oz cream cheese (170 g), room temperature
½ cup powdered sugar (60 g)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
milk , as needed

Instructions

Dry Ingredients

Add all ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Set aside.

Wet Ingredients

Add all ingredients into another bowl, except for carrot and walnuts. Whisk until everything is well combined. Now add in dry ingredients and mix well. Don't over mix. Finally add in carrot and walnuts. Fold everything together using a spatula, again don't over mix.

Baking

Pour batter into a 10 inch (25 cm) bundt pan that has been buttered and floured. Bake in a preheated oven at 320ºF (160ºC) for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Use upper and bottom heat, no fan, lower ⅔ rack.
Remove from the oven and leave for 5 minutes before flipping the cake on a rack. Cool completely.

The Cream Cheese Glaze

Whisk cream cheese in a bowl until fluffy. Then add powdered sugar, lemon juice and whisk everything together. Pour milk bit by bit until you get your desired consistency, mixing as you go.
Pour on the cake, slice and serve!

Notes

Pro Tip: Bake the cake 1 day earlier and glaze it the day after. It tastes more delicious the next day!

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