Carrot Cake
Course: Dessert, Savoury Snack
Servings: 6
Calories: 673kcal
This is carrot cake done right: laced with cinnamon, deliciously moist, and crowned with a cream cheese frosting that complements instead of overwhelms. If you need a winner for morning tea or dessert, make this your pick.
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Ingredients
Cake Base
- 300 g carrots peeled and grated
- 3 eggs
- 120 g brown sugar
- 120 g golden syrup
- 180 g olive oil
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tsp bicarb soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 225 g self-raising flour
- 2 scoops (50g) AdVital Powder
- 75 g roasted walnuts chopped
Cream Cheese Icing
- 400 g cream cheese
- 150 g pure icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 lemon juiced
- 50 g double cream
- 2 scoops (50g) AdVital Powder
Instructions
Cake Base
- Preheat the oven to 170°c (fan-forced).
- Line a square cake tin (22cm x 22cm) with baking paper.
- Vigorously whisk the eggs, brown sugar, and golden syrup together for 5 minutes.
- Add the olive oil, vanilla, bicarb soda, cinnamon, walnuts, carrots, AdVital Powder and flour. Mix them together gently until they form a smooth mixture.
- Place the mixture into the previously prepared cake tin and bake it for 30–40 minutes (until a skewer speared through the middle comes out clean).
- Allow the cake to cool for 20 minutes in the tin, then remove it and allow it to cool completely on a wire rack.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Use electric beaters to mix the cream cheese, icing sugar, vanilla, and lemon juice in a bowl until they form a smooth, well-combined mixture.
- Whisk the AdVital Powder into the mixture.
- Whisk the fortified cream into the cream cheese mixture together until they combine.
- Spread the cream cheese frosting over the cake.
- Portion the cake into pieces as required and serve it.
Nutrition
Serving: 183.3g | Calories: 673kcal | Carbohydrates: 56.1g | Protein: 19.7g | Fat: 40.2g | Saturated Fat: 6.6g | Sodium: 804mg | Potassium: 480mg | Fiber: 4.7g | Sugar: 24.1g