Dad's Carrot Cake
Dad's Carrot Cake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, dad's carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Then fold in the grated carrots. Pour into a greased & lightly floured rectangular cake pan. In a medium mixing bowl, beat all four ingredients until creamy. For an extra treat, sprinkle fresh.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook dad's carrot cake using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Dad's Carrot Cake:
  1. Make ready Cake
  2. Prepare 3 eggs
  3. Get 1/2 cup olive oil
  4. Prepare 2 cup plain flour
  5. Make ready 1 cup white sugar
  6. Prepare 3 tsp baking soda
  7. Take 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  8. Make ready 2 tsp ground ginger
  9. Make ready 1 cup chopped walnuts
  10. Get 2 cup grated carrot
  11. Make ready 1 can crushed pineapple in juice, drained
  12. Get Cream Cheese Icing
  13. Prepare 200 grams cream cheese
  14. Make ready 150 grams butter
  15. Prepare 1 zest and juice of 1 lemon
  16. Take 1 icing sugar

Spoil Dad with this delicious carrot cake slab, topped with our fluffy cream cheese frosting. I had a carrot cake fan taste this and he said it was the best he's ever eaten. I'm off from work today and it happens to be my step dad's birthday. As a surprise, I decided to bake him his favorite cake, carrot cake.

Instructions to make Dad's Carrot Cake:
  1. preheat oven to 180ºC, grease and line a 20cm springform cake tin.
  2. beat eggs until frothy and add oil.
  3. sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger, add sugar and fold through egg mixture.
  4. mix in walnuts, carrot and drained pineapple until combined.
  5. bake for approximately 45 minutes. cake should be dark golden on top and feel firm to the touch. set aside and allow to cool (as it is a very moist cake, I don't recommend testing it by inserting a knife or skewer as it won't come out clean, even when the cake is cooked)
  6. for the icing: combine room temperature butter and cream cheese with a food processor or electric mixer. add lemon juice and zest, then add icing sugar until it reaches your desired consistency (should be slightly runny as it firms up)
  7. once cake is mostly cool, ice and serve.
  8. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

I'm off from work today and it happens to be my step dad's birthday. As a surprise, I decided to bake him his favorite cake, carrot cake. This was my first time baking a carrot cake and the results came out great! I got the recipe offline from sallysbakingaddiction.com and, after asking permission, will share a link to it. My husband and I had to leave before we were able to taste it, but I was told "the carrot cake is amazing…Dad is working on his third piece." I think it's a hit!

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