About our carrot cake traybake
We've turned a classic tea time treat into a tray bake version and then smothered in cream cheese frosting. Our Carrot Cake Tray Bake is a really easy one to try at home and the possibilities are endless with the decoration. We've opted for a classic cream cheese icing and cute little carrot decorations.
Just like any carrot cake, feel free to decorate it how you'd like. We've seen versions with chopped nuts, lemon zest or pearl sugar worked into the cream cheese frosting.
Prefer a more traditional recipe? Give our easy carrot cake a whirl.
Method
Step 1:
Preheat your oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan/gas 4.
Step 2:
Grate the carrots into a large bowl. Sift the sugar, flour, bicarb and cinnamon on top of the carrot and mix.
Step 3:
Whisk together the eggs and oil and add to the bowl.
Step 4:
Line your baking tin with greased proof paper and then pour in the batter.
Step 5:
Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until the cake is cooked. Wait for the cake to cool thoroughly before icing it.
Step 6:
To make the icing, mix the butter and icing sugar together, then stir in the soft cheese until smooth. Be Careful not to overmix once you've added the cream cheese! Otherwise it'll go runny.
Step 7:
When the cake is cool, spread the top with the icing and carrot toppers and serve.
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 200g Carrots (peeled)
- 175g Billington's light muscovado sugar
- 200g Allinson's Self Raising White Flour
- 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- 2 Large eggs
- 150ml Sunflower oil
For the Icing
- 50g Softened butter
- 75g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar
- 200g Soft cheese
- 12 Carrot decorations
Utensils
- 18cm square baking tin
- Mixing bowl
Recipe Reviews
An easy and straightforward recipe that turned out well, I'm using more recipes with sunflower oil and bicarb these days as they always seem to produce a light and airy cake.
I'll be making this again!
My daughter was raving about the Carrot Cake she had in Canada and I tried numerous recipes but nothing matched up until I tried this one -she said it's even better- fabulously easy to make as well
Made this cake for cake sale and it went down a treat will definitely make it again
Very easy to make. Tastes delicious
Absolutely delicious. I make this anytime I need a quick dessert and it always turns out a treat. I've had multiple people tell me it's the nicest carrot cake they've ever had.
really easy recipe to follow and is a lovely carrot cake taste, i always put a little bit of fresh Lime juice in my frosting fro carrot cakes and creates a lovely taste to it .
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 200g Carrots (peeled)
- 175g Billington's light muscovado sugar
- 200g Allinson's Self Raising White Flour
- 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- 2 Large eggs
- 150ml Sunflower oil
For the Icing
- 50g Softened butter
- 75g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar
- 200g Soft cheese
- 12 Carrot decorations
Utensils
- 18cm square baking tin
- Mixing bowl