Chocolate Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
From chefmeow 17 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This cake is incredible. The carrots keep it very most and the chocolate, honey and coffee make it so rich and tasty. This is always gobbled right up when I bake it for famiy or friends. Enjoy.
Ingredients
- 2-1/2 ounces unsweetened chocolate shopping list
- 1-1/3 cup unbleached white flour shopping list
- 2/3 cup unsweetened coca powder shopping list
- 1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder shopping list
- 1-1/2 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon shopping list
- 3 eggs room temperature shopping list
- 1-1/4 cup honey shopping list
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter shopping list
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract shopping list
- Finely grated zest of 1 lemon shopping list
- 3/4 cup buttermilk room temperature shopping list
- 1-1/2 cups grated carrots shopping list
- chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting: shopping list
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature shopping list
- 1-1/2 cup neufchatel cheese softened shopping list
- 3/4 cup maple syrup shopping list
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder shopping list
- 2 tablespoons instant coffee shopping list
- 1 tablespoon rum shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler then set aside to cool.
- In bowl combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl beat eggs then add honey and beat until light.
- Add butter to eggs and beat well then stir in vanilla and lemon zest.
- Add cooled chocolate and mix well.
- Stir in buttermilk then dry ingredients just until combined then stir in grated carrots.
- Pour batter into two buttered and floured cake pans and bake for 40 minutes.
- Let cool before taking out of pans then cool completely and frost.
- To make frosting beat butter then add cream cheese and beat until creamy.
- Add syrup and beat again then add cocoa, coffee and rum and beat until well combined.
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