Carrot Cake

Takes 80 minutes | Serves 12 |

Ingredients

3 large eggs
250 ml neutral cooking oil
275 g sugar
3 tsp vanilla sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
0.375 tsp nutmeg
0.5 tbsp baking soda
0.5 tbsp baking powder
325 g wheat flour
100 g dark baking chocolate
400 g carrots
1.5 large apples
200 g butter
500 g Icing sugar
400 g plain cream cheese

Steps

Cake

• Preheat the oven to 180°C.
• Prepare ingredients: chop the chocolate, grate the carrots and apples.
• Whip together eggs, sugar, and oil until light. Sift in flour and dry ingredients, fold with a spatula. Stir in chocolate, then fold in carrots and apples.
• Pour batter into a 22x32 cm pan lined with parchment. Bake at 180°C for 50-60 minutes. Check doneness with a match. Cool in pan, then turn out.

Cream Cheese Frosting

• Mix room-temperature butter and powdered sugar, then whip in cream cheese and vanilla sugar. Spread over cooled cake.

Serving and Storage

• The cake can be refrigerated for several days or frozen without frosting.