Nordic carrot cake with cream cheese topping
Super easy and traditional recipe for Nordic carrot cake with cream cheese topping. This recipe is the old-fashioned and traditional recipe which has been used for generations in Denmark.
Servings: 8 people
Ingredients
Carrot cake
- 300 g brown sugar
- 2 dl vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- 375 g carrots
- 275 g all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2.5 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp cinnamon
Cream cheese topping
- 300 g cream cheese
- 180 g butter
- 270 g powdered sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla powder (or essence)
Instructions
- Whip the brown sugar and oil well together while adding the eggs one by one.
- Peel the carrots and grate them finely. Add them to the brown sugar mixture.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix it all together.
- Pour the cake batter into a greased dish with a size of about 20x30 cm (8x12 incand bake it at 185 C (365 F) for about 40 minutes. The baking time depends on the size of the dish. The cake is finished when there is no batter on a fork that is inserted in the cake.
- The cheese cream is easily made by whipping all the ingredients together.
- The cheese cream is spread evenly over the cake when it is baked and cooled.