Carrot cake with cream cheese

Carrot cake with cheese cream is a fragrant, spicy dessert that has gained incredible popularity over the past couple of years. It contains aromatic spices, besides, carrots are added to the dough, it gives the cakes juiciness, while the taste of carrots is not felt. A light creamy layer goes well with cakes. Carrot cake with cheese cream and walnuts is not difficult to prepare. It will become a real decoration of the festive table, delight you and your guests.

Cooking time: 2880 minutes (48 hours).

Servings: 8.

Calories: 345.

Ingredients

For the cake:

• flour - 165 g;
• eggs - 2 pcs;
• grated carrots - 175 g;
• walnuts - 60 g;
• vegetable oil - 100 g;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• sugar - 200 g;
• salt - 1/3 tsp;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• nutmeg - a pinch.

For cream:

• butter (soft) - 100 g;
• cream cheese (Philadelphia type) - 350 g;
• powdered sugar - 50 g.

Cooking

1. We prepare products for cakes.

2. Still need walnuts. They must be cleaned of shells and membranes, dried in a pan. Heat up a dry frying pan and add the nuts. Dry for a few minutes to a pleasant aroma. Immediately remove the pan from the heat, transfer the nuts to another bowl to stop the frying process and the nuts do not burn. Nuts should be covered with a napkin and let them rest.

3. Grind the cooled nuts with a regular knife.

4. You will need three medium carrots. Carrots should be chosen juicy and fresh (sluggish carrots do not suit us). We clean the carrots.

5. Rub the carrots on the smallest grater. You can also use a combine or other chopper.

6. Pour vegetable oil into a deep bowl and add all the sugar. Mix with a mixer.

7. Drive the eggs into a separate bowl.

8. Without ceasing to beat the butter with sugar, add the eggs to the mass.

9. Be sure to add salt to the dough for taste.

10. Prepare dry ingredients.

11. We install a sieve on a bowl with an egg-oil mass. Put all dry products in a sieve and sift.

12. Using a spatula, mix the dry ingredients into a homogeneous mass.

13. Add prepared nuts, mix well so that the nuts are evenly dispersed in the dough.

14. Now add the carrots and mix thoroughly.

15. In what form to bake the cakes depends on how you want to serve the finished cake. If you have a round cake, you should bake the cakes in a detachable biscuit pan. We will have a rectangular cake, we will bake the cake in a wide baking sheet. Line the baking sheet with parchment paper first. During baking, our dough will rise, so we form sides from paper. For safety, we cover the paper with vegetable oil. Transfer all the dough to a baking sheet, evenly distribute it with a silicone spatula.

16. We heat the oven at t-180⁰ C, top-bottom mode. We bake the cake for twenty to thirty minutes, depending on the power of your oven. We check the readiness of the cake with a wooden skewer or toothpick.

17. Transfer the finished cake to a wire rack and let it cool.

18. At the cooled cake, we trim the edges, cut off one or two centimeters from all sides.

19. At this point, the chilled cake can be cut into two equal parts and a two-layer cake can be prepared. We want to make a three-layer cake, so with the help of toothpicks we make markings so that the cakes are cut evenly.

20. Cut the whole cake into three parts.

21. If you do not plan to finish cooking the cake that day, the cakes can be wrapped in parchment paper and covered with cling film on top. Send the cakes in this form to the refrigerator. Cakes can be stored in the refrigerator for up to three days, but we will prepare the cake the next day. The ability to rest the cakes in the refrigerator helps to evenly distribute moisture in baking.

22. It is not necessary to throw away the cake trimmings, they can be left right on the table to dry.

23. Dried cake slices can be crushed in a blender bowl, or rubbed on a fine grater.

24. For the cream, we will need cream cheese, it is very easy to cook it at home. To do this, you can take a regular package of kefir that you like. For the cream according to the recipe, you need to take two bags of one liter each. The percentage of fat content is better to take higher (2.5-3.2%). Kefir is sent directly in packages to the freezer until it is completely frozen (four to six hours).

25. Place the colander on a deep bowl. We cover the colander with gauze in four to six layers, shift the frozen kefir, after taking it out of the package.

26. We cover the frozen kefir with the free edges of gauze, leave it on the table until it is completely defrosted.

27. That's such a homogeneous and elastic cream cheese we got.

28. We prepare products for the cream according to the list.

29. We transfer the products to a bowl. The cream will be whipped with a blender or mixer.

30. Beat the cheese cream until fluffy.

31. Generously spread cheese cream between the cakes.

32. Cover the top and sides of the cake with cream. If there are irregularities, smooth them out with cream.

33. Cover the entire cake with sprinkles.

34. Decorate the carrot cake as you wish. The decoration should contain carrots.

Here is such an original cake you can cook for the holiday. Fragrant, tasty and bright carrot cake with cheese cream will surely please your guests.