Description
This moist carrot cake loaf is packed with warm spices and topped with rich cream cheese frosting. Perfect for holidays or everyday baking.
Ingredients
Scale
- 200 g grated carrots
- 110 g oil
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 100 g dark brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 140 g sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 240 g all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 100 g butter
- 50 g full-fat cream cheese
- 180 g powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare loaf pan with parchment paper.
- Mix oil, granulated sugar, and brown sugar together.
- Add eggs and mix until combined.
- Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and salt.
- Add half dry ingredients to wet mixture and mix.
- Add sour cream and vanilla and mix.
- Add remaining dry ingredients and mix.
- Fold in grated carrots gently.
- Pour batter into loaf pan and run knife down center.
- Bake 65–75 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool completely.
- Beat butter until creamy.
- Add cream cheese and vanilla and mix.
- Add powdered sugar gradually and beat until smooth.
- Spread frosting over cooled loaf.
Notes
- Weigh ingredients for best accuracy.
- Do not overmix batter.
- Adjust baking time if using different pan size.
- Allow cake to cool completely before frosting.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 294
- Sugar: 24g
- Sodium: 266mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9g
- Trans Fat: 0.2g
- Carbohydrates: 37g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 42mg