Carrot Cake with Secret Moistening Ingredient | Kukskitchen

This is the best carrot cake recipe ever. Now what makes it the best recipe ever is a secret ingredient. You will find it in the ingredients. Like all carrot cakes this uses oil instead of butter. It is the secret ingredient that gives the cake all its moisture. Thank you dear Simone for passing this recipe on to me. I used wilton's butter cream recipe and did ruffles to give a simple finish. I will share the recipe in my next post. Watch this space.

I made it for my son's birthday just gone. It was his 5th and he was super excited. He loved the cake. We had it for breakfast. 

A few things before we start:

• I made this cake the old fashioned way using wooden spoon only, but you can use a planetary mix too.
• Use good quality olive oil for a better taste.
• I pureed by pineapple pieces ( Ooops! I gave away the secret ingredient) but one could add them chopped up too.
• My son is not a big fan of nuts and hence I avoided walnuts when I made the cake.
• I baked my cake for 55mts and don't panic, the centre will sink a little.
• I made the cake the night before to allow thorough cooling. This helps the icing stay and stick to the cake better.
• Cream cheese icing works best with this cake. Check out my recipe here.

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Carrot Cake

Makes one 30 cm  round cake 

Serves: 24

Prep:30min › Cook:45min › Ready in:1hr15min

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Ingredients:
1- Plain flour - 250g
    Bicarbonate of soda - 2 tsp
    Baking powder - 1 tsp
    Salt - 1 tsp
    Ground cinnamon - 2 tsp
2- Caster sugar - 350g
    Vegetable oil - 225 ml
    Eggs - 3
    Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
3- Grated carrots - 225g
    Desiccated coconut - 75g
    Chopped walnuts - 120g
    Crushed pineapple, drained and pureed - 1 tin (227g)

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour a 20x30cm tin.
• Mix (1). Make a well in the centre and add (2). Mix with wooden spoon until smooth. Stir in (3).
• Pour into tin. Bake at 180 C / Gas 4 for about 45 minutes.
• Allow to cool before icing.

 Recipe adapted from: Allrecipes


And Yes, the secret ingredient is pineapple.

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