📋Carrot Cake Loaf With Walnuts

This carrot cake combines the crunchiness of the carrots and the walnuts with a moist batter. It is perfect for picnics, easy to carry and mess free!

Course Desserts

Cuisine American, British

Keyword carrot cake, healthy cake, vegetable cake

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 30

Servings slices

Calories 394kcal

¾ cup butter at room temperature
1 ½ cup caster sugar
3 fresh eggs
2 cups grated carrots about 3 large carrots
¾ cup chopped walnuts
1 ½ cups flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 ½ teaspoon mixed spices (alternative 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon minced cloves and ¼ of nutmeg)

Grate the peeled carrot in a blender
2 cups grated carrots
Mix the grated carrots with the chopped walnuts
¾ cup chopped walnuts
Sift the flour with the baking powder and the spices
1 ½ cups flour, 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
Add them to the carrots and walnuts

With an electrical mixer, whip the butter (room temperature) with the sugar until it becomes creamy.
¾ cup butter at room temperature, 1 ½ cup caster sugar
Add the 3 eggs, one at the time
3 fresh eggs
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and combine
1 ½ teaspoon mixed spices

Once the cake is ready, let it cool down for 10 minutes before turning it over on to a rack – then let it cool completely.
It will keep nice and moist for 3 days.

What makes this cake nicely moist and fluffy is the whipping of the butter with the sugar. Make sure it is nice and foaming before you add the eggs.
Add one egg at a time to make sure they are well combined
Mixed spices are a specific spice you easily find in the Uk and Ireland. If you cannot find it in your country, you can mix 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon minced cloves, and ¼ of nutmeg.
Once you add the flour sifted with the baking powder, you need to bake the cake right after otherwise, you risk compromising the rising of the baking powder.
Do not remove it from the pan immediately otherwise; it will break. Although, remove it from the pan to cool down completely so the steam is released and the loaf forms a nice crunchy crust.