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Easy Rustic Homemade Christmas Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting Center

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Portions: 8 portions

Calories: 419kcal

There's the classic carrot cake recipe, and then there's this "rustic", spiced wonderful christmas carrot cake recipe with a middle layer of cream cheese "frosting" that has the consistency of a smooth cheesecake. It doesn't hurt that this homemade carrot cake is also pretty easy to make.

Why I ā¤ļø it • Recipe • Ingredients • Preparation

Christmas carrot cake

Why I ā¤ļø it

This is not the classic carrot cake, although nearly all the ingredients are the same. I've added a few touches that to me speak of Christmas: spices, ginger -- I may have a tiny obsession with ginger -- and cranberries.

The cream cheese filling in this dessert does not contain butter, and is made with low-fat cream cheese, though the result is still a very moist carrot cake. The addition of brown sugar gives it a lovely caramel color and a richer flavor, and it's made with whole-wheat flour for extra texture and nutrition. I hope you'll agree with me that this is the best carrot cake recipe for the holidays.

Rustic Christmas carrot cake recipe

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Learn how to make this spiced wonderful christmas carrot cake with carrot cake with cream cheese frosting center. It doesn't hurt that is also pretty easy to make.

Course: Dessert
Inspiration: Christmas
Category: carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, carrot recipe for christmas, carrot recipes for christmas dinner
Author: Clara Gonzalez

Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time30 mins
Total Time40 mins

Utensils and tools

  • Box grater
  • Mixer
  • 2 x 8" [20 cm] round baking pans
  • Oven
Christmas carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Christmas carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 1 pound carrot, [0.45 kg], peeled and grated finely
  • ¼ cup olive oil, plus a bit to grease the baking pan
  • 1 cup whole-wheat flour, plus a bit to dust the baking pans
  • 3 medium eggs
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder
  • ¼ teaspoon clove powder
  • 1 ½ teaspoon ginger powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup of crasins (dry sweetened cranberries)

For the filling

  • 8 ounces low-fat cream cheese, [0.23 kg]
  • ½ teaspoon lime zest
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, (any color)

Preparation

Before starting, please make sure you have all the ingredients and utensils ready.

Step 1: Heat the oven

Heat oven to 300Āŗ F [150 ĀŗC]. Grease the baking pans with oil, then dust with flour and turn and tap to get rid of the excess flour.

Greased and dusted baking pans
Greased and dusted baking pans

Step 2: Add the ingredients

To make the cake batter, first peel and grate the carrots with the medium size of the box grater.

Grating the carrots
Grating the carrots with box grater

Place the grated carrot in a large mixing bowl. To that add the ingredients for the cake (oil, flour, egg, brown sugar, cinnamon powder, clove powder, ginger powder, salt, baking powder, and cranberries). Mix very well with a spatula until everything is wel combined. Pour half of the batter into each baking pan.

Step 3: Bake

Bake them in the preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until you insert a skewer or knife in the center and it comes out clean.

Remove from the oven and cool to room temperature.

Step 4: Make the filling

To make the filling, combine all the ingredients for the cream cheese "frosting" in the mixer vase (cream cheese, lime zest, brown sugar, vanilla extract). Beat all the ingredients with the paddle attachment of the mixer at medium speed until all the brown sugar has dissolved (5-7 mins).

Step 5: Serving

Pour the cream cheese frosting into a piping bag, and pipe onto one of the cakes in concentric circles. Alternatively, you can spread with a cake spatula.

Frosting piped onto cake
Frosting piped onto cake

Cover it with the other cake and serve at room temperature.

Variations

You can make pipe double the amounts for the frosting ingredients and make twice as much to pipe a top layer for the cake, if you don't mind the extra calories.

Yes, you can turn this into a carrot cake cupcake recipe by scooping equal amount of the batter into lined muffin tins.

5 carrot cupcake with cream cheese frosting
Carrot cup cake

Serving suggestions

If you like walnuts, chop toasted almonds to sprinkle onto the cream cheese frosting, as served on the carrot cake muffins above.

Top tips

Yes, you can make this into a frosted carrot cake recipe, all you have to do is double the ingredients for the frosting, and use half for the filling and the other half to ice the cake.

Homemade rustic Christmas carrot
Christmas carrot cake

Nutritional information

Calories: 419kcal - Carbohydrates: 60g - Protein: 9g - Fat: 18g - Saturated Fat: 12g - Cholesterol: 102mg - Sodium: 313mg - Potassium: 488mg - Fiber: 5g - Sugar: 37g - Vitamin A: 12955IU - Vitamin C: 4.5mg - Calcium: 124mg - Iron: 1.6mg

FAQs

Is carrot cake healthier than regular cake?

It depends on the cake being compared to it, but I believe that this is a pretty healthy carrot cake and with many great nutritional qualities.

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Christmas carrot cake with cheesecake center

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 1 pound carrot [0.45 kg] , peeled and grated finely
  • ¼ cup olive oil plus a bit to grease pan
  • 1 cup whole-wheat flour plus a bit to dust pan
  • 3 eggs medium
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder
  • ¼ teaspoon clove powder
  • 1 ½ teaspoon ginger powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup of crasins (dry sweetened cranberries)

For the filling

  • 8 ounces low-fat cream cheese [0.23 kg]
  • ½ teaspoon lime zest
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (any color)

Instructions

Step 1: Heat the oven

  • Heat oven to 300Āŗ F [150 ĀŗC]. Grease the baking pans withĀ oil, then dust withĀ flourĀ and turn and tap to get rid of the excess flour.

Step 2: Add ingredients

  • To make the cake batter, first peel and grate theĀ carrotsĀ with the medium size of the box grater.
    Place the grated carrot in a large mixing bowl. To that add the ingredients for the cake (oil,Ā flour,Ā egg,Ā brown sugar,Ā cinnamon powder,Ā clove powder,Ā ginger powder,Ā salt,Ā baking powder, andĀ cranberries). Mix very well with a spatula until everything is wel combined. Pour half of the batter into each baking pan.

Step 3: Bake

  • Bake them in the preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until you insert a skewer or knife in the center and it comes out clean.
    Remove from the oven and cool to room temperature.

Step 4: Make the filling

  • To make the filling, combine all the ingredients for the cream cheese "frosting" in the mixer vase (cream cheese,Ā lime zest,Ā brown sugar,Ā vanilla extract). Beat all the ingredients with the paddle attachment of the mixer at medium speed until all the brown sugar has dissolved (5-7 mins).

Step 5: Serving

  • Pour the cream cheese frosting into a piping bag, and pipe onto one of the cakes in concentric circles. Alternatively, you can spread with a cake spatula.
    Cover it with the other cake and serve at room temperature.

Notes

Yes, you can make this into a frosted carrot cake recipe, all you have to do is double the ingredients for the frosting, and use half for the filling and the other half to ice the cake.

Nutrition

Calories: 419kcal

Publicado por Tia Clara - Dec 13, 2014

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  1. Mahee Ferlini

    December 17, 2014 at 9:38 pm

    This looks amazing. This is one of my favorite christmas desserts so I'll definitely have to try this!

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