Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting is a sweet cake mixed with grated carrots into the cake batter. During the cooking process, the carrot will soften allowing the cake to have a soft dense texture. many of the more modern recipes today have added nuts, raisins, pineapple or coconut to further enhance its flavour. This simple carrot cake recipe with baking video is easy to prepare and often eaten plain but more than often glazed with icing or cream cheese on top to make it richer. 
     This particular cake has been around since medieval times when sugar was a scarce commodity therefore carrot was used instead as a sweetener. Today with the usage of leavening agents such as Baking Powder or Baking Soda to obtain a lighter, fluffier cake and begone are the days when eating Carrot cakes was like eating well you guess it, hard, dry and crunchy carrot cookies and usher in the sweet, fluffy, rich gourmet cake.

Below is a video showing you how to bake Carrot Cake

Recipe
75 gm Unsalted Butter
75 ml Corn Oil
130 gm Sugar
80 gm Brown Sugar
3 nos Whole Eggs
200 gm Soft Flour
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Sodium Bicarbonate
1/2 tsp Cinnamon Powder
250 gm Carrot

For Cream Cheese Frosting
250 gm Cream Cheese
50 gm Sugar

Method
1) Peel and grate the carrots finely. Using a clean kitchen towel, wrap the grated carrots and press out the juices.
2) Cream butter, corn oil, sugar and brown sugar together in mixing bowl till smooth and colour of batter changes pale.
3) Add in eggs slowly one by one. The best way is to break the eggs (egg yolks) before adding it in to avoid batter splitting. continue to beat till fluffy.
4) Make sure batter is completely smooth before proceeding to add the next egg.
5) Mix in 1/3 of soft flour into the grated carrot. This will prevent the carrot from sticking together and sink to the bottom while baking.
6) Add in remaining soft flour, baking powder, sodium bicarbonate and cinnamon powder into the batter...
7) Mix till all ingredients form a smooth batter. Do not overmix as cake texture will be affected (springy texture due to flour gluten).
8) Lastly add in grated carrots and mix for just about 10 seconds till well mixed.
9) Using a rubber spatula, make sure bottom of batter is well mixed.
8) Brush shortening on the bottom and sides of a 20 cm (8") cake ring. Line the bottom of ring with grease proof paper to prevent the cake from sticking to the bottom.
9) Pour in cake batter and bake in oven at 180 C (356 F) for 45 minutes. Insert a toothpick into centre of cake when done. If inserted toothpick comes out clean, your cake is done.
10) Set aside to cool down. 
11) Please refer to baking video for a more detailed step by step method.

Making Cream Cheese Frosting
1) Beat cream cheese together with 50gm sugar at high speed till smooth and fluffy.
2) Coat the whole or just the top part of cake with generous amount of cream cheese frosting.
3) Decorate carrot cake chocolate, wafers, chocolate rice, croquants or anything you fancy. Some fresh fruits will certainly add to the colour of the cake.

This Simple Carrot Cake Recipe makes 1 X 20cm (8") Round Cake Ring.