Baking for Easter: My very favorite carrot cake recipe

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Editor reveals: My very favorite carrot cake recipe

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Julia Ballerstadt

Looking for the perfect cake for the Easter coffee table? Then we have the right recipe for the right cake: We have Carrot Cake. Of course the very best!

In my world there is no cake more suitable for Easter than carrot cake, carrot cake, carrot cake or whatever you like to call it. Because: Easter equals rabbits equals carrots. Logical, right? And that’s why the same delicious cake ends up on our coffee table every year. Not only is it super juicy, it also saves you dinner. But that doesn’t bother us as much now – if in doubt, we’ll just treat ourselves to a little midnight snack, after all it’s not Easter every day. And this is how it’s done:

Recipe for tasty carrot cake

Ingredients for the dough:

  • 225 grams of flour
  • half a packet of cream of tartar
  • 300 grams of brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • half a teaspoon of salt
  • 3 level teaspoons of cinnamon
  • 250 ml sunflower oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 375 grams of carrots
  • 100 g chopped almonds
  • 50 g walnut kernels, crushed

For the frosting:

  • 150g powdered sugar
  • 100g melted butter
  • 200 g double cream cheese
  • half a teaspoon of vanilla extract or a few drops of buttery vanilla flavoring

That’s how it’s done:

  1. Preheat the oven (top and bottom heat) to 175° C
  2. Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, vanilla extract, salt and cinnamon
  3. stir in the oil
  4. Add eggs one at a time and mix in
  5. Peel, wash and grate the carrots
  6. Fold into the batter along with the almonds
  7. Grease the springform pan (Ø 24 cm) and line the bottom with baking paper
  8. Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 60 minutes, cover slightly towards the end and then leave to cool in the tin
  9. For the frosting: melt the butter, let it cool down and stir in the icing sugar, cream cheese and vanilla extract until creamy
  10. Carefully cut the carrot cake in half crosswise and smooth out about 1/3 of the frosting on the bottom layer, distribute the remaining cream evenly on and around the cake
  11. If you like, you can decorate the cake with chopped nuts, walnuts, colorful crumbles or marzipan carrots

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