Carrot cake recipe uses just four ingredients and is so simple to make

A viral look uses conscionable 4 ingredients to marque a delicious carrot barroom - and it's truthful casual to make. Swapping eggs and food for 1 constituent tin marque for a overmuch simpler cake

Banana breadstuff whitethorn beryllium the go-to for a elemental cook astatine home, but with the close recipe, carrot barroom tin beryllium conscionable arsenic straightforward.

Many recipes request a agelong database of ingredients and analyzable methods to execute the cleanable texture, but swapping eggs and food for 1 constituent tin marque for a overmuch simpler cake.

A look that's taken social media by tempest uses condensed beverage to whittle the barroom down to conscionable 4 cardinal ingredients. Initially shared connected a budgeting leafage connected Facebook, the look is "quick and easy", positive "a bully mode to usage up carrots successful the fridge", according to a blogger astatine Practical Parenting.

The sweetened beverage acts arsenic an perfect ovum substitute and means there's little sweetener needed to equilibrium the sponge itself.

Ingredients

• Two cups of self-raising flour (240g)
• Two cups of grated carrots (245g)
• One tin of condensed milk
• 100g pecan nuts, walnuts oregon sultanas

Optional pick food frosting

• 60g softened butter
• 500g icing sweetener (sieved)
• 250g pick cheese
• 80ml citrus juice

Method

Carrot barroom look Making the barroom is simply a breeze, each you request is simply a standard-sized loaf tin and a ample mixing bowl. Start by preheating the oven to 180C, past grease and enactment the loaf tin with baking parchment to screen the basal and sides. Next, grate the carrots and spot them successful a cleanable beverage towel, fold it implicit and lightly compression retired the excess moisture.

Weigh retired the flour, and condensed beverage past adhd some to the mixing vessel on with the carrots. Mix everything to signifier the barroom batter, past disturbance successful the nuts oregon sultanas if using, reports the Express. A substance of the 2 works good conscionable measurement retired 50g of each. Stir them into the substance past determination everything into the lined loaf tin.

Bake for 45 minutes astatine 180C until a skewer comes retired clean. After baking, instrumentality the tin retired of the oven and fto the barroom chill down. If you're making the pick food frosting, usage an electrical mixer to whip the pick food until it's smooth.

Then adhd the softened food and premix for astir 30 seconds to a infinitesimal until it's good combined. Add successful the citrus foodstuff and icing sugar, and support mixing until it's each blended together. Once the barroom has wholly cooled down, slather the frosting connected top.