Chocolate Carrot Cake
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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/
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- Total Time
- 1hr 20mins
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- Serves
- 12
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- Calories
- 700
This chocolate carrot cake is perfectly moist and spiced, and packed full of carrot, raisins, and chocolate chips. It's topped with a smooth cream cheese frosting making it the perfect snacking cake for any time of the year. This cake is made in one tin and is perfect for easy portioning and sharing.
recipe updated 6 Aug 2025
Ingredients
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- Orange
- 1
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- Carrot
- 300 g
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- Unsalted butter
- 75 g
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- Cream cheese
- 125 g
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- Egg
- 4
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- Olive oil
- 240 g
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- Light brown sugar
- 400 g
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- Plain flour
- 300 g
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- Baking powder
- 2 teaspoons
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- Salt
- 1 teaspoon
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- Ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons
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- Ground cardamom
- 1 teaspoon
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- Orange zest
- as needed
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- Dark chocolate chips
- 75 g
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- Raisins
- 150 g
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- Vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons
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- Icing sugar
- 400 g
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- Dark chocolate
- as needed
Tools
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Oven
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Kenwood Chef
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Rectangular pan - 13x9" (33x23 cm)
Step preview
- Preheat the oven - 180ºC
- Grease a tin and line with parchment paper overlapping the edges
- Fit the Whisk Tool
- Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl
- Whisk – 1 minute, speed 3
- Add the next ingredients
- Whisk – 1 minute, speed 2
- Add the next ingredients
- Whisk – 1 minute, speed 1
- Transfer the batter into prepared tin
- Bake until skewer inserted comes out clean - 35-40 minutes, 180ºC
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool in a tin - 20 minutes
- Lift the overhanging parchment paper and transfer the cake onto a wire rack to cool completely
- Now make the cream cheese frosting
- Clean the appliance bowl and fit the K-Beater
- Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl
- Mix – 3 minutes, speed Max
- Add the next ingredients
- Mix – 5 minutes, speed Max
- Spread the frosting evenly over the top of the cake
- Decorate with chocolate shavings and orange zest
- Serve