There are no less than 9 recipes for carrot cake on Bake Club - it's a perennial favourite for sure. This one ticks all the boxes for vegetables, nuts, fresh fruit, dried fruit, spices, healthiness and it's a double decker - all topped with the essential cream cheese icing. It's from Allyson Gofton's The Baker's Companion (Penguin Random House, 2019).

4 eggs

2 c grated carrot

1 3/4 c caster sugar

1/2 c raisins, plumped up by soaking in water or liqueur for half an hour

1/2 c walnuts or pistachios

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Our daughter requested this for her 10th birthday family dinner. Red velvet cake is subtly flavoured with cocoa powder. I'm not too enamoured with the flavour myself, but I do love a bit of cream cheese icing.

3 c flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 Tbsp cocoa powder

1/2 tsp salt

115 g softened butter

2 c sugar

1 c vegetable oil

4 eggs, separated

1 Tbsp vanilla extract

1 tsp white vinegar

1-2 tsp red food colouring gel

1 c buttermilk (or milk mixed with yoghurt)

Icing:

450 g cream cheese, softened

170 g butter, sof...

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One must have cream cheese icing with carrot cake, so why not bake the topping into the cake? This is from Jerrelle Guy's Black Girl Baking (Page Street, 2018).

1/3 c raisins

1 1/2 c flour (I used wholemeal spelt)

1 c almond meal

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp allspice

1/2 tsp salt

3 pineapple rings

1/3 c neutral oil

1/2 c coconut sugar

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 large carrots, grated

1/4 c chopped toasted walnuts, optional

cheesecake layer:

250g cream cheese, softened

1/4 c granu...

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Carrot cake with a twist, a roll actually. This carrot Swiss roll brings the mighty combo of spicy carrot cake and cream cheese filling into every bite. Thanks to Denizen for the inspiration.

3/4 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs
1/2 c sugar
2 Tbsp oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 c grated carrot (about 2 medium size)

Filling:
1 c icing sugar
250 g cream cheese
85 g softened butter
1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 190C. Line a 25 cm x 38...
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Whatever you want to call it, this double-storey cake is a double-win. The tangy cheesecake layer melds so well with the rich, fudgey brownie. You can make this in a round or straight-sided tin, depending on what shaped pieces you prefer on the day. The coffee is optional but it adds a depth of flavour to the brownie.

Cheesecake:

250g cream cheese at room temperature

1/2 c yoghurt

1/2 c icing sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

Brownie:

250g dark chocolate

100g butter

1/2 c yoghurt

1 c sugar

1/3 c cocoa po...

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I've always wanted to give brown butter a go, considering all the cheffy types love the flavour and believe it adds so much to sweet or savoury food. So I used it in this cake and frosting - rather excessive I thought but it makes an impressive cake! It's from Jill O'Connor's Cake, I Love You (Chronicle Books, 2017). The beurre noisette brings an extra depth of caramelness to the banana.

330g unsalted butter
3 c flour (I used spelt)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp sea salt
4 eggs at ro...
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R is for rainbow cake! A successful attempt at a birthday cake for a 6-year-old thanks to Kerry Cooks.

Gel colours definitely make your life easier. They are a little more expensive than liquid food colouring but they will last a long time. Just squeeze the amount you need onto a teaspoon and mix into your batter - no colour anywhere else.

This is no. 18 of 26 alphabetical bakes!

For the cake:
350 soft butter
350g sugar (I used caster)
6 eggs
350g flour (I used spelt, Kerry specifies self...

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Caraway seeds. Acquired taste. Caraway crisps. Not my best work. I think these biscuits have an identity crisis. They are in the Savoury chapter of High Tea (Viking, 2014) but the recipe included 1/4 c sugar, salt and a sprinkling of salt and caraway. The butter and cream cheese makes a very rich combination. The sweet-savoury taste would not be to everyone's liking, but my husband gobbled quite a few after being wary at first!
120g softened butter
1 c cream cheese
1/4 c cup sugar
1 c self-raisin...
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This recipe is a combination of Petite Kitchen's almond cake and Bonnie Delicious's cream cheese icing, free of gluten and sugar, which I made for Father's Day. I'm very excited to be attending a wholefood cooking class by Kelly Gibney from Bonnie Delicious on Sep 17 in Auckland.

2 c almond meal
3 eggs
4 Tbs sweetener (I used rice malt syrup)
1/3 c coconut oil
2 Tbs lemon zest
2 Tbs rosewater
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

icing:
250 g cream cheese
seeds 1 vanilla pod
juice 1 lemon
50g butter
1 T...

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By Frances
Cheap pumpkins! So this week I made pumpkin soup, pumpkin granola bars, pumpkin muffins, and froze a batch of pumpkin puree. These muffins are an easy alternative to the carrot version. The cream cheese icing really sets it off.
This recipe is adapted from The Pioneer Woman.

• 1 cup All-purpose Flour
• 1/4 cup Sugar
• 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon Ground Ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 4 Tablespoons Butter, cut into pieces
• 1 cup (heaping) Pumpkin Puree
• 1/2 c...

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By Sophie
Another goodie from Julie Le Clerc's Favourite Cakes. It's great the way it uses whole mandarins. I added cream cheese icing and decorated it with almond praline.

6 mandarins (600g) or oranges
6 eggs
1 c sugar (I used rice malt syrup)
1 c dessicated coconut
2 c ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder

Preheat oven to 160C. Grease a 22cm cake tin and lightly dust with flour. Coarsely chop mandarins, including the skin but removing any pips, and place in a saucepan with enough water to cover.
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Individual carrot cupcakes with lashings of cream cheese icing! Exactly what we mums deserve at coffee group. It's one of Martha Stewart's.
1 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1 1/2 cups shredded carrots
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup shredded coconut, plus more f...
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This recipe is from the Food Channel programme The Sugar Club with Dean Brettschneider and Julia Crownshaw. They added 25g brown sugar to the base, which I did not. Anyway, mine turned out really well. Super with yoghurt.

 

200g gingernuts
65g butter
1 tsp ginger
450 cream cheese
150g caster sugar
30g cornflour
2 eggs, 1 extra yolk
200g sour cream
1 Tbs lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla paste
100g chocolate

 

Method

Turn oven to 200°C. Line an 18cm-20cm springform tin with bak...

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We recently visited the Green Snapper Café in Colville, Coromandel, on our babymoon, and had a cosy time sitting by the roaring fire looking out to the deserted road outside, reading the weekend paper and being thankful for living in paradise. We had a good ol’ seafood chowder and toasted sammie. Coffee was great. They had a lots of nice-looking cakes on the bench but then the blackboard special caught my eye – roasted banana cheesecake. Three magical words that go so...

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Carrot cake ain't carrot cake without cream cheese icing!

2 eggs
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 oil
1 c flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 c chopped walnuts (optional)
1 1/2 c grated carrots

For icing, mix together:
100g cream cheese at room temperature
1/2 c icing sugar
enough lemon juice to taste

Beat eggs and sugar until creamy. Add oil, then fold in dry ingredients. Pour into greased ring tin or loaf tin. Bake at 150C for 3/4 hour.
Wait till cool to sp...
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This cake was so popular at work, by the time I got to photograph it most of it was gone! Birg also makes a gluten-free version with riceflour and almond meal. Most excellent.

3 eggs
1 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup rice bran or grape seed oil
440g can crushed pineapple, drained of juice (Birg used pineapple chunks, very nice)
2 mashed bananas
1/2 cup desiccated coconut
1 1/3 cups self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon

Cream cheese icing
250g cream cheese, at room temperature
1/2 cu...

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