Carrot Cake Recipe (Cream Cheese Glaze)
This carrot cake recipe; It is flavored with grated carrots, cinnamon and nutmeg, and bakes in the oven with a soft texture. You prepare a cream cheese glaze on top and serve it by spreading it on the cooled cake. Ingredients and how-to steps are below.
Ingredients
1. For the cake
2. For the glaze
Step-by-Step Method
Prepare the oven and mold
Preheat the oven to 175°C. Grease a 24–26 cm round mold and line the bottom with baking paper; so the cake comes out easily.
Combine dry mixture
Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a bowl. Not having any lumps will make the cake rise more evenly.
Beat eggs and sugar
Beat the eggs and granulated sugar for 2–3 minutes. The texture of the cake will be softer when the mixture is opened.
Add carrots and raisins
Add grated carrot and mix with spatula. Add raisins; If you want, you can use the grapes more gently by soaking them in warm water for 5 minutes and straining them.
Fold in dry ingredients
Add the dry mixture in 2–3 additions. Mix by folding from bottom to top with a spatula; Do not beat too much so that the cake does not harden.
Bake
Pour the dough into the mold and smooth the top. Bake for 50 minutes; When the toothpick comes out clean, take it out of the oven. Let it rest in the mold for 10 minutes and transfer it to the wire rack.
Prepare the glaze
Blend cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar and mix; Add corn syrup, vanilla and salt and obtain a fluid but spreadable consistency.
Cool and coat
When the cake is completely cooled, spread the glaze on it. If you keep it in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes before slicing, it will come out cleaner when cutting.