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Carrot Cake Recipe: Perfect for Easter

March 22, 2024

The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming - spring is finally here and with it the Vorfreude for Easter! What could be better than celebrating this joyful season with your loved ones and enjoying a delicious carrot cake? In this post, I share with you my favorite recipe for a moist carrot cake, decorated with a refreshing cream cheese frosting. The perfect treat for your Easter brunch or coffee gathering with your loved ones!

Ingredients for the dough:

400 g carrots
250 g flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 packet of vanilla sugar
180 g sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 pinch of salt
250 ml rapeseed oil or sunflower oil
4 eggs
200 g ground almonds

Ingredients for the glaze:

300 g cream cheese
40 g powdered sugar

For decorating:

Pistachios

Preparation:

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius (top and bottom heat) and line a springform pan (24 cm diameter) with baking paper. Grease the edge of the pan well and dust it with flour or ground nuts.

Peel the carrots, grate them coarsely, and set them aside for now.

In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, and cinnamon. Gradually add the oil and eggs and mix everything well. Finally, add the grated carrots and ground almonds and gently fold them into the batter.

Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan and bake it in the preheated oven for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Then let the cake cool completely and carefully remove it from the pan.

For the cream cheese glaze, beat the cream cheese with the powdered sugar until creamy and spread it generously on the cooled cake. Finally, decorate your carrot cake with chopped pistachios. Of course, you can also use marzipan carrots or edible flowers as decoration. We decorated the cake on our stoneware cake stand. Doesn't that look wonderful?

The delicious carrot cake is perfect for the Easter holidays and looks so nice on the table. A piece of carrot cake, a cup of coffee, and a sunny spring day - that's Easter as it should be!

Feel free to tell us in the comments which recipe must not be missing for you at Easter. We wish you a wonderful Easter time with many beautiful and sunny moments!