This isn’t just another carrot cake recipe, this is a Caribbean Carrot Cake recipe with a twist. The twist is dark rum that you must make.
Clearly there are tons of carrot cake recipes on the net since it’s a very known dessert. However, my carrot cake recipe hasn’t been on the net up until now. This isn’t just another recipe, it is my recipe and I am in love with it. So I will be sharing with you guys how to make this Caribbean Carrot Cake recipe with a Cream Cheese Frosting.
Along with 1000+ food bloggers in the world, I wanted to share this carrot cake with you guys. I really do love carrot cake and I think it is one of the best ways to use carrots. When I was younger I thought that it was nasty but boy was I wrong.
This cake is so simple and so easy to make. Unlike other cakes, like cheesecake, this one is not complicated to make nor require a lot of work. The only part that is hard/tiresome is grating the carrots, everything else goes by quickly.
What makes this Carrot Cake different?
I knew I wanted to spice things up with this recipe, so in order to do so I had to add something extra. I added dark rum to my batter and it was the best decision I ever made. Probably not the best decision but it was very much worth it.
In addition to the rum being a great added flavor, I felt like it made the cake real moist. Carrot cake is know to be moist but I just felt like the rum just give it an extra moist. I really loved adding the rum to cake because of the amazing results.
In case you are thinking that you need an expensive dark rum, I am here you tell you that you don’t. You don’t need no fancy rum, just a dark rum. My bottle cost me less than $5 and it worked perfectly.
And I must mention the need to have dark raisins in your cake. They give the cake that extra sweetness and you get a nice little raisin within each bite.
I hope you enjoy the recipe.
Now, let’s get into it.
Caribbean Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
Carrot cake:
- 2 medium Eggs at room temperature
- 2 cups Grated carrots (eq: 3-4 large carrots)
- 2 cups All-purpose flour sifted
- 3/4 cup Brown sugar
- 1/2 cup Dark raisins
- 1/2 cup Vegetable oil
- 4 tbsp Dark rum
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Almond essence
- 1/2 tsp Fresh or ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp Fresh or ground cinnamon
Cream cheese frosting:
- 8 oz Cream cheese softened
- 1 & 1/2 cups Confectionner's sugar sifted
- 1/2 cup Unsalted butter (eq: 1/2 stick of butter)
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
Instructions
Prep:
- Preheat your oven to 180°C/350°F. Line two 9-inch cake pans with parchment paper or spray with a non-stick pan or rub with butter and dust with a little flour.
- Set the pans aside.
Making the cake batter:
- In a bowl, beat the eggs, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, almond essence and brown sugar together. Beat until smooth.
- Mix in the grated carrots, raisins and the dark rum.
- Using a sifter, sift in the flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Once the flour is sifted in, mix everything together using a spatule. Mix until it is well combined.
Baking the cakes:
- Pour the batter evenly into the two cake pans. You can make this batter into a 3 layer by using 6-inch pans.
- Place the cake pans into the oven, making sure they are not too close the bottom part of the oven nor the top.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in comes out clean.
- When the cakes are done baking, remove from the oven and let it cool for at least 20 minutes before removing from the pan and letting them cool completely on a wire rack.
Making the frosting:
- Using a stand mixer or a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese until it is smooth. It may take 2-3 minutes.
- Add the softened butter to the cream cheese and beat for an additional 30 seconds to 1 minute.
- Gradually beat in the powdered sugar and then the vanilla extract.
Frosting the cake:
- If you are an expert cake froster then you can frost the entire cake. But if you can't frost a cake like myself then start by adding frosting to the top of one cake layer.
- In between the layers you can add crushed walnuts if you want to.
- Place the second cake layer on top of the frosted cake layer then add more frosting to the second layer, as well as crushed walnuts if you want to.
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