Berta's Boiled Carrot Cake

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recipe by Suvi Coffey

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 30mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    10
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    883

Delicious carrot cake that pleases everyone. The carrots are boiled and pureed before adding into the batter.

recipe updated Mar 1, 2022

Ingredients

  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    200 g
  • Butter icon
    Butter
    500 g
  • Lemon icon
    Lemon
    ½
  • Cream cheese icon
    Cream cheese
    225 g
  • Pastry flour icon
    Pastry flour
    245 g
  • Caster sugar icon
    Caster sugar
    205 g
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    2 teaspoons
  • Ground cinnamon icon
    Ground cinnamon
    2 teaspoons
  • Vanilla extract icon
    Vanilla extract
    2 teaspoons
  • Vegetable oil icon
    Vegetable oil
    240 ml
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    3
  • Carrot icon
    Carrot
    180 g

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Large mixing bowl
  • kCook icon Loaf pan - 10"
  • kCook icon Large mixing bowl

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 175°C
  2. Add icing sugar, butter, lemon and cream cheese to a clean large mixing bowl
  3. Blend until smooth
  4. Refrigerate for approx 20 min
  5. Mix pastry flour, caster sugar, baking powder, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract, vegetable oil and egg in a clean large mixing bowl
  6. Add carrot to the batter and fold together
  7. Transfer batter to loaf pan
  8. Bake - 50 min
  9. Let rest - 10 min
  10. Turn out
  11. Frost
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