Carrot cake with nuts
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. A delicious and healthy carrot cake. It can be decorated with chocolate glaze, buttercream, or whipped cream. Serve this cake cold. You can add any nuts, dried apricots, raisins, prunes, as well as fresh fruits and berries. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
1. Peel the carrots and grate them on a coarse grater. Grate the pineapple on a coarse grater or blend into a puree using a blender. Chop the walnuts with a knife.
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Step 2
2. Pour vegetable oil into a bowl, add brown and white sugar, vanilla extract, add eggs and mix. Add the prepared carrots, pineapple, and nuts, and mix.
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Step 3
3. In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ground cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients and mix once again.
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Step 4
4. Pour the cake into a mold and bake for about 1 hour at 170 degrees. Let the cake cool, then refrigerate for 1 hour. Meanwhile, prepare the icing: mix cream cheese with softened butter, sugar, and vanilla. Spread the resulting cream over the cooled cake.
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Step 5
5. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, then take it out and cut into pieces.