Carrot Cake is such a classic, and hard to go wrong with. This one is decorated with small mini carrots – made out of fresh carrots. Easy & cute! I found the recipe here and it’s slightly modified. Hope you enjoy it!
Recipe / Recept
3 eggs / 3 ägg
1 & 1/4 cups of sugar / 3 dl socker
1 & 1/4 cups of flour / 3 dl mjöl
3 tsp of baking powder / 3 tsk bakpulver
2.5 tsp of cinnamon / 2.5 tsk kanel
2 tsp of cardamom / 2 tsk kardemumma
1.5 tsp of ginger / 1.5 tsk ingefära
a pinch of salt / 1 nypa salt
2 cups of freshly grated carrots / 4.5 dl rårivna morötter
0.8 cups of oil / 2 dl matolja
frosting / frosting
2 oz of butter / 60 g smör
7 oz of cream cheese / 200g philadelphiaost
2 cups of icing sugar / 4.5 dl florsocker
zest from 1 lime / skal från en lime
zest from 1/2 lemon / skal från en halv citron.
1. Preheat the oven to 300 F. / Sätt ugnen på 150 grader.
2. Mix eggs and sugar until fluffy and light light yellow. / Vispa ägg och socker fluffigt och ljusgult.
3. Add all the dry ingredients. / Tillsätt alla torra ingredienser.
4. Add the carrots. / Lägg i morötterna.
5. Add the oil. / Lägg i oljan.
6. Bake in the oven for about 50-60 min. / Grädda i ca 50-60 min.
7. Let cool. / Låt svalna.
8. Mix all the ingredients for the frosting. / Vispa ihop alla ingredienser till frostingen.
9. Spread the frosting on top of the cake. / Bred på frostingen på toppen av kakan.
10. Cut small pieces of carrots for decoration. / Skär små bitar av en morot till dekoration.
11. Slice the lime thinly and put together as a flower. / Skär limen i tunna skivor och montera en blomma.
12. Done! / Klart!
That’s a beautiful cake!
Thank you! 🙂 The decorations are so easy but does so much! 🙂