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Happy Easter form my kitchen to yours with this moist and irresistible carrot cake. I hope you will have an enjoyable Easter weekend with your family and friends.
My dessert suggestion for your Easter buffet would be a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. This carrot cake gets enriched with walnuts, golden raisins, and coconut flakes. The little carrots for the decoration are handmade by my kids with marzipan and food coloring. Aren’t they adorable?
My family LOVES this carrot cake and by the time the 9×13 inch cake was ready for frosting just a 9×9 size remained since everybody had to have just a little nibble beforehand.
Enjoy and Happy Easter!
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Ingredients
- 1 cup (70 g) coconut flakes, sweetened
- 1 cup (110 g) walnuts, chopped
- ½ cup (90 g) golden raisins
- 3 cups (425 g) carrots, grated
- 2 cups + 2 Tablespoons (255 g) whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (250 ml) canola oil
- 1½ cup (300 g) sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 8 ounces (225 g) cream cheese, at room temp.
- 1 stick (113 g) unsalted butter, at room temp.
- ½ pound (225 g) confectioners sugar
- ½ teaspoon lemon extract
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 F. Grease a 9×13 inch baking pan.
- Mix coconut, walnuts, raisins and carrots. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In a stand mixer with paddle attached combine the oil and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Don’t forget to scrape the bowl.
- With the mixer on low slowly add the flour mixture. Don’t over mix.
- Add the carrot mixture to the batter. Combine well.
- Transfer batter into the prepared baking dish. Bake for 40 – 50 minutes.
- Let cool for applying the frosting.
- For the frosting mix cream cheese, lemon extract, and butter until light and fluffy. Slowly add the sugar and beat the frosting until smooth.
- Decorate the frosted cake with handmade marzipan carrots.
Notes
Make your own marzipan carrots using about 4 ounces (100 g) marzipan. Use green food coloring for the greens and a mixture of red and yellow for the orange color.
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Looks so delicious! And I have to keep in mind how to prepare those cute carrots. Happy Easter to you and your family from Berlin
Your carrot cake looks so good, I love the little carrot decorations! Have a wonderful Easter;-)
So yummy looking and the marzipan carrots are perfect! Happy Easter to you and your family. XOXO
It looks so good! So so god! Like from the magazine!
I love that something as simple as a carrot cake can have so many variations. This is a great recipe and I love the denseness of it. Plus your icing and little carrots are divine. Did you see my carrot cake scones? We must be on the same wavelength. Happy Easter!
I have a real weakness for carrot cake, especially with cream cheese frosting. Your little carrots are the perfect decoration, Kirsten. Happy Easter to you and your family.
Happy Easter to you too. This is a beautiful looking cake. I love carrot cake but have to leave oug the raisins. I know I’m crazy.
delicioso, I love cake carrot
I’m impressed with those little carrot decorations. How fun. Carrot cake is my absolute favorite cake of all. Yesterday, I didn’t want to make an additional stop at Whole Foods for carrots for dinner, so bought a bag at Costco. I now have enough carrots to make about 12 of these cakes.
Happy Easter to you and your family! BTW, the carrot cake looks delicious!
Beautiful carrot cake! I’d have to leave out the nuts, but I bet it’ll still be just as delicious!
This carrot cake looks so beautiful. Since I was invited at a friend’s birthday party when I was 7, and had it there for my first time, I love carrot cake. At the time we still called it Rüblitorte and it looked more the traditional way.
What a lovely carrot cake! It looks so tempting.
Cheers,
Rosa
O how funny! That does look almost exactly like the one I made. Love those little carrot marzipan on top.. Something to remember for next time!
Looks great, Kirsten. I really like carrot cakes. Since they aren’t that famouse over here it’s hard to get a good one if you don’t bake it yourself.
What a cute cake! And it looks so moist and delish too
I made carrot cake last Easter too! Hope you had a great one. Love the decoration.