Mary Berry's carrot and walnut cake with cream cheese icing recipe
For Mary Berry's carrot and walnut cake recipe, it’s important to use full-fat cream cheese for the icing (we recommend Philadelphia). If you use a low-fat version, the icing will just run off the cake. Carrot cake is beautifully moist, so keeps well. If your kitchen is warm, store the cake in the fridge.
loveFOOD recommends: you'll need two sandwich tins for this recipe: this loose-based tin was developed by Mary Berry for Lakeland.
Ingredients
- 250 ml sunflower oil
- 4 large eggs, beaten
- 225 g light muscovado sugar
- 200 g carrots, peeled and coarsely grated
- 300 g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 75 g walnuts, shelled and chopped, plus 8 halves to decorate
- 8.8 fl oz sunflower oil
- 4 large eggs, beaten
- 7.9 oz light muscovado sugar
- 7.1 oz carrots, peeled and coarsely grated
- 10.6 oz self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 2.6 oz walnuts, shelled and chopped, plus 8 halves to decorate
- 1.1 cups sunflower oil
- 4 large eggs, beaten
- 7.9 oz light muscovado sugar
- 7.1 oz carrots, peeled and coarsely grated
- 10.6 oz self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 2.6 oz walnuts, shelled and chopped, plus 8 halves to decorate
- 50 g butter (room temperature)
- 25 g icing (confectioners') sugar
- 250 g full-fat cream cheese (room temperature)
- 3 drops of vanilla extract
- 1.8 oz butter (room temperature)
- 0.9 oz icing (confectioners') sugar
- 8.8 oz full-fat cream cheese (room temperature)
- 3 drops of vanilla extract
- 1.8 oz butter (room temperature)
- 0.9 oz icing (confectioners') sugar
- 8.8 oz full-fat cream cheese (room temperature)
- 3 drops of vanilla extract
Details
- Cuisine: English
- Recipe Type: Cake
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 15 mins
- Cooking Time: 35 mins
- Serves: 8
Step-by-step
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Grease two deep 20cm (8in) round sandwich tins and line the bases of the cake tins with baking parchment.
- In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients for the cake mixture. Spoon the mixture evenly between the tins.
- Put the cakes in the oven and bake for about 35 minutes, or until golden brown, risen, and shrinking away from the sides of the tins. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Make the icing: measure the butter, icing sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla extract into a bowl and whisk using a hand or electric whisk until smooth and thoroughly blended.
- Spread half the icing on one cake, sit the other cake on top, and spread the remaining icing on top to make a swirl pattern. Decorate the top of the cake with the halved walnuts.
This recipe is from Mary Berry's Cookery Course, published by DK. Also available as an eBook to download from the iBookstore and Amazon Kindle Store.
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