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Carrot cake loaf with cream cheese icing
By Chatelaine261
Makes
1 loaf
Photo, Erik Putz.
There's nothing more classic than a carrot cake loaf. We top ours with sweet and creamy cream cheese icing and pepitas. Serve it tonight.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp allspice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup canola oil
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 2 tbsp pepitas
Cream Cheese Icing
- 1/4 cup softened cream cheese
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
- pepitas
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.
