Carrot Cake

Christmas is always time to meet with the family to have dinner and have a good time and of course, always the hosts of the dinner we like to stand out and surprise with something. That is why today we are going to prepare this delicious cake.

Ingredients for the 2 cakes:

- 420gr of Flour.

- 6 Eggs.

- 4 Teaspoons of Yeast.

- 360ml of Oil.

- 4 teaspoons Cinnamon.

- 450gr of grated carrots.

- 210gr of Apple cut into small pieces.

- 180gr of Raisins.

- 360gr of Sugar.

- 2 Handfuls of chopped walnuts.

Ingredients for the cream and the decoration:

- 300 gr of Icing Sugar

- 125gr of Butter at room temperature.

- 125gr of cream cheese.

- Chopped walnuts to decorate.

Elaboration:

Preheat oven to 180°C (356°F)

Beat the eggs with the oil and the sugar, then we incorporate the flour, the cinnamon and the yeast and we re-mix well until obtaining a homogeneous mass.

Then add the apple, carrot, raisins and walnuts and re-mix everything. Distribute the resulting dough in 2 molds and put them individually in the oven at 180 degrees (356°F)  for about 45 - 50 minutes (check when it pass 40 minutes by punching with a toothpick, if it comes out clean we can remove the cake from the oven) Once the cakes are ready we leave them Cool and then unmold them.

To prepare the cream for decorate our cake, we will mix the butter with the sugar until obtaining a texture similar to the ice cream. Then add the cream cheese and beat for about 3 minutes. Finally we decorate the cake putting a little of the cream between the two cakes and put the rest on top, at the end decorate the top with chopped nuts.

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