Easy Cake Filled WIth Carrots and Walnuts
Carrot Walnut Cake is a deliciously moist and tender cake made with grated carrots and crushed walnuts. The cake is full of flavour with carrots and walnuts in every delicious bite. It
Servings: 8
Calories: 559kcal
Ingredients
- Self raising flour - 2 ½ cups
- Eggs - 3
- Baking powder - 3 tsp
- Baking soda - 1 tsp
- Ground nutmeg – ¼ tsp
- Ground cinnamon - ½ tsp
- Vegetable oil – 1/3 cup
- Brown sugar - 1 ½ cup
- Walnuts – 1 cup, coarsely ground
- Carrots – 2 cups, grated
Instructions
- To make the best ever carrot cake, pre-heat the oven to 180 degree C
- Mix the eggs and vegetable oil and beat the mixture until it turns fluffy.
- Add sugar and continue beating the mixture.
- In a different dish add the ground walnuts, grated carrots, ground nutmeg, cinnamon, baking soda and powder.
- Add this mix to the (2, 3) eggs and sugar.
- Now, add the flour and mix well. You will get a cake mix that is thick in consistency.
- Apply butter/vegetable oil on the walls of your baking dish.
- Transfer the cake mix to the baking dish and bake at 160-180 degrees for 45 minutes.
- Stick a toothpick in the centre of the walnut carrot spice cake after 45 minutes and if it comes out clean, your cake is ready.
- Once done, leave the Carrot and Walnut cake to cool.
- Cut into slices and serve yummy Carrot and Walnut Cake with a scoop of ice-cream!
Notes
*You can add 1/2 tsp of dry ginger, 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon and 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg to the cake mix.