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Birds eye view of best carrot cake loaf on a bread board with three slices cut away. Plates, grated carrot and chopped nuts arranged as decoration above.
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📋 Best Carrot Cake Loaf

Best carrot cake loaf. With smooth cream cheese icing and a moist texture this delicious and easy to make recipe is just perfect to share!
Course Home Baking
Cuisine British
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Servings 15 slices
Calories 155kcal
Author Neil

Equipment

Ingredients

For The Cake: -

  • 200 g peeled and grated carrots
  • 50 ml sunflower oil
  • 2 medium sized eggs
  • 100 g light soft brown sugar
  • 225 g plain flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 3 tablespoon milk

For The Cream Cheese Topping: -

  • 200 g low fat cream cheese.
  • 2 tablespoon icing sugar
  • Mixed Chopped Nuts optional decoration*
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

For The Cake: -

  • Pre-heat oven to 180C FAN / 350F / Gas Mark 4
  • Lightly grease a loaf tin. Cut out and line the base with a piece of greaseproof paper.
  • In a large mixing bowl, place the carrots, sunflower oil, eggs and sugar. Beat them together.
  • To the large mixing bowl stir in the flour, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and milk to create a batter.
  • Pour the batter into the loaf tin and bake in the centre of an oven for about 35-40 minutes. Check the cake is cooked by inserting a skewer into the centre. It should come out clean.
  • Once cooled, put the loaf tin on a wire rack to cool for about 10 minutes. Then turn out the cake, remove the piece of greaseproof paper from the bottom and allow to cool further.

For The Cream Cheese Topping: -

  • While the cake is cooling make the cream cheese topping. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and stir in the cream cheese. Beat well together.
  • Once the cake has cooled completely, spread the topping all over the top using a palate knife and decorate with the chopped mixed nuts.
  • Keep the finished cake in an airtight container. Slice as required.

Notes

*Optional and not included in the nutritional label.
The loaf cake makes approximately 15 slices.

Nutrition

Calories: 155kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.002g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 218mg | Potassium: 159mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 2338IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 58mg | Iron: 1mg