Carrot Cake with Walnuts and Cinnamon. Whatever the occasion, this carrot cake recipe is sure to impress. With warming cinnamon, crunchy walnuts and velvety cream cheese frosting, it's a real winner. This is my favorite recipe for homemade carrot cake!
I also added chopped walnuts and pecans to the cake batter which gave a nice extra texture.
These rolls are carrot cake inspired with fresh shredded carrots inside a spiced and yeasted cinnamon dough.
The filling is rich and sweet, studded with raisins and walnuts… All the goodness of carrot cake, deconstructed and brought back together again.
You can have Carrot Cake with Walnuts and Cinnamon using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Carrot Cake with Walnuts and Cinnamon
- It's 2 of eggs.
- Prepare 150 g of sugar.
- It's 200 g of flour.
- Prepare 2 of carrots.
- It's 50 g of butter.
- It's 50 g of walnuts.
- You need 1 of coffee spoon of olive oil.
- It's 1 of coffee spoon of baking powder.
- You need of Cinnamon.
- Prepare of Vanilla.
- It's of (You can also add raisins).
Nigella's carrot cake with ginger and walnuts is a twist on the classic - not too much icing, not too sweet. At this stage the mixture may seem alarmingly stiff, but the carrots will loosen it up. Beat in the carrots and then fold in the walnuts and crystallised ginger, until everything is evenly combined. Whisk flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl.
Carrot Cake with Walnuts and Cinnamon instructions
- Mix eggs with sugar. Add melted butter and olive oil..
- Grate carrots. Crush walnuts in small pieces. Add everything to the butter and mix well..
- Add cinnamon, vanilla add flour with baking powder. Should be a consistency of thick sour cream..
- Cover baking pan with parchment paper, if you don’t have parchment paper you can cover pan with butter. Purr the butter in. Bake 30min in the 200°C oven..
- Decorate with sugar powder.
Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat eggs, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract until pale and Fold in raisins, if using, and walnuts with a rubber spatula. Add walnuts, pineapple and carrots and mix until thoroughly combined. Carefully fold in enough milk to make a batter (not too sloppy or stiff). Try adding a teaspoon of cinnamon and/or cardamom. An easy way to evenly portion cup-cakes is to use an ice cream scoop that has a bale.