Hello friends! Today we're going to share with you how to make a classic carrot cake and velvety cream cheese frosting.
Be honest, we’ve never tried a carrot cake before, until we found this recipe. We’re so surprised that It’s so easy and super super yummy. Everybody loves it. This cake is totally different from sponge cake or chiffon cake, it’s dense, super soft and deeply moist. And adding the walnuts in the batter is the perfect combination.
Carrot cake is an old fashioned dessert. Many food historians believe carrot cake originated from Europeans in the Middle Ages, when sugar and sweeteners were expensive and many people used carrots as a substitute for sugar. Even use it to make desserts.
This recipe is from the famed Rose Bakery in Paris. Their carrot cake is the best selling item in each of its locations in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Seoul and etc. And now it’s also our best ever carrot cake. We invite you to enjoy and explore this new cake.
This is an #ASMR ver, you can check out the other version that with BGM and Voices in Chinese if you like:
https://youtu.be/ZqjaopvxLPg
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How to make Carrot Cake Recipe
Carrot Cake Recipe Recipe
☞ Cake pan size: 15cm/ 6inch
✎ Ingredients
☞ For the cake
carrots 250g, peeled
egg 2, at room temperature
granulated sugar 112g
vegetable oil 150ml (133g)
all-purpose flour 150g
ground cinnamon 1.3g (1/2 tsp)
baking powder 2g (1/2 tsp)
baking soda 1.5g (1/4 tsp)
salt 1.6g (1/4 tsp)
walnuts 75g
☞ For the icing
cream cheese 125g, at room temperature
unsalted butter 62g, at room temperature
vanilla extract 2g (¼ tsp)
powdered sugar 30g
✎ Intructions
1. Preheat the oven to 170˚C
2. Butter the cake pan and line its base with a parchment paper.
3. Roughly chop the walnuts and then place them into the food processor, use the pulse function so you don’t end up with walnut paste.
4. Peel the carrots and remove the top and bottom. Cut into small chunks. Place the carrot chunks into the food processor, finely grated. Or grate the carrots on the small holes of grater. Set aside.
5. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, ground cinnamon and salt together, mix well.
6. Beat the eggs and sugar on medium speed for 3 minutes with an electric hand mixer, until fluffy and a bit of light.
7. Gradually pour in the oil little by little while beating constantly until fully combined.
8. Add the carrots and fold evenly by spatula, then add the dry ingredients into the mixture until just to incorporate. Finally fold in the walnuts.
9. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for about 45~50 minutes or until a knife or sticker inserted in the center comes out clean.
10. Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan, once the pan is cool to the touch, remove the cake from the pan and let cool completely on the rack.
11. Make the icing. Beat the butter with vanilla extract, till smooth, then add the cream cheese and beat for a few minutes till the mixture is well combined. Add the powdered sugar and mix well.
12. When the cake is cold, ice the top with the icing, it can be as smooth or rough as you like.
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Chapter:
00:00 opening
00:30 Ingredients
01:15 Butter the pan
01:50 Preparing the ingredients
04:31 Make the Carrot Cake batter
08:30 Baking
09:03 Make the icing
10:45 Icing the cake
11:33 Carrot Cake taste
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