Carrot cake loaf with cream cheese icing
Makes 1 loaf
Updated Mar 7, 2019
Chatelaine
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups
all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp
1/2 tsp
1 1/2 tsp
3/4 tsp
ground ginger
1/4 tsp
1/4 tsp
2
2/3 cup
canola oil
1/2 cup
1/2 cup
granulated sugar
1/4 cup
packed dark brown sugar
2 tsp
2 cups
grated carrots
2 tbsp
Cream Cheese Icing
Instructions
- PREHEAT oven to 350F and spray a 9 × 5-in. loaf pan with oil.
- WHISK flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and salt in a large bowl. Beat eggs, oil, buttermilk, both sugars and vanilla in a medium bowl, then stir into flour mixture until just combined. Stir in carrots.
- SCRAPE batter into prepared pan and bake until a tester inserted into centre of loaf comes out clean, 50 to 60 min. Cool in pan for 10 min. Remove from pan and cool completely.
- CREAM CHEESE ICING: Beat cream cheese with icing sugar (add ½ cup at a time) in a bowl until fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Spread over cooled loaf and sprinkle with pepitas.
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