Carrot Cake Loaf with Cream Cheese Icing
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- Makes1 loaf
Photo, Erik Putz.
There's nothing more classic than a carrot cake loaf. We top ours with sweet and creamy cream cheese icing and pepitas. Serve it tonight.
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
2/3 cup canola oil
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups grated carrots
2 tbsp pepitas
Cream Cheese Icing
1/4 cup softened cream cheese
1 cup icing sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
pepitas
Instructions
PREHEAT oven to 350F and spray a 9 × 5-in. loaf pan with oil.
WHISK flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and salt in a large bowl. Beat eggs, oil, buttermilk, both sugars and vanilla in a medium bowl, then stir into flour mixture until just combined. Stir in carrots.
SCRAPE batter into prepared pan and bake until a tester inserted into centre of loaf comes out clean, 50 to 60 min. Cool in pan for 10 min. Remove from pan and cool completely.
CREAM CHEESE ICING: Beat cream cheese with icing sugar (add ½ cup at a time) in a bowl until fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Spread over cooled loaf and sprinkle with pepitas.
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