Chocolate Carrot Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
"Every year at work we have around Valentine's Day a little ritual called Secret Pals, where you draw the name of a co-worker and spoil them all week with little gifts. At the end of the week you serve them with their favourite dessert and reveal your identity to them. One year I had someone who loved carrot cake so I wanted to give him something a little different so I looked through my cookbooks and found this recipe, which is a bit different than my usual carrot cake recipes. He absolutely loved it (and so did my husband!)"
photo by FLKeysJen
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
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1 cake
- Serves:
- 12-16
ingredients
-
CAKE
- 1 1⁄2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 3⁄4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 pinch allspice
- 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- 1⁄2 cup raisins
- 1⁄3 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 3 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup packed brown sugar
- 3⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- 3⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted
- 3 cups grated carrots
-
ICING
- 1⁄2 lb cream cheese
- 1⁄4 lb semisweet chocolate, melted
- 2 cups sifted icing sugar
directions
- CAKE: In a bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and allspice; stir in walnuts, raisins and coconut.
- In a large bowl, beat eggs; gradually blend in the brown and granulated sugars.
- Add oil; beat in chocolate.
- Stir in carrots.
- Add flour mixture all at once, mixing just until evenly combined.
- Line a greased 13 x 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper or waxed paper.
- Grease the paper.
- Pour the batter into the pan and bake in a 325 degree F oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until the top springs back when lightly touched and cake begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
- Let cool.
- TO MAKE ICING: Meanwhile, in a bowl, beat cream cheese until light; beat in chocolate.
- Gradually beat in the sugar; cover and chill in the refrigerator for 30 to 60 minutes or until spreadable.
- Spread over the cooled cake.
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Reviews
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I am only reviewing the icing as I made it to go on a banana cake. It was very good and I would use it again. Thanks for sharing your recipe! -
We LOVE carrot cake and were expecting more carrot cake flavor. This is a chocolate cake and tastes like chocolate cake, with some chewiness from the walnuts and coconut. This was just O.K...I'm not leaving a rating since it just wasn't our thing. We could taste the oil, it fell apart a little bit when we took it out of the pan even after cooling, and we couldn't taste the carrots at all. -
I have made a recipe like this before and it was WONDERFUL. The choc. adds something wonderful to a carrot cake. I used regular cream cheese frosting..can not wait to try it w/ the choc. cream cheese frosting. -
My husband gave this a four star rating. And he doesn't eat chocolate cake! So I've given it a five star because I do and this is delicious. The addition of spices, nuts and raisins and coconut give it a lift from ordinary chocolate.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Irmgard
Canada
<p>I live with my husband, four cats, and a sweet mutt named Jada in Scarborough, Ontario, where I work as an elementary school administrative assistant. I have a 31 year old daughter who lives with her boyfriend in nearby Don Mills, along with my sweet granddogs, Frankie and Turbo. I would have to say that my passion is animals, since I have so many of them! <br /><img src=http://images.quizilla.com/H/h0t5auce/1108834307_brown_answer.jpg alt= /> <br /><img src=http://www.recipezaar.com/members/home/532663/cookswithcattitude.JPG alt= /> <br /><img src=http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r271/copperhorse58/CalendarGirlsSwap2009.jpg alt= /> <br /><br />If I had a month off work to do what I please, I would first catch up on my sleep and then just have fun - see a few movies and maybe take a couple of short trips - something that wouldn't break the bank - lol!</p>
