Gluten Free Coconut Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Icing Food

COCONUT CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan or 2 (8- or 9-inch) round cake pans with shortening; lightly flour.
• In large bowl, beat granulated sugar, oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed about 30 seconds or until blended. Add flour, cinnamon, baking soda, vanilla and salt; beat on medium speed 1 minute. Stir in carrots, pineapple, nuts and coconut (batter will be thick). Pour into pan(s).
• Bake 13x9-inch pan 40 to 45 minutes, round pans 30 to 35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool rectangle in pan on cooling rack. Cool rounds 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, make Cream Cheese Frosting. In medium bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and milk with electric mixer on low speed until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, until smooth and spreadable.
• Frost 13x9-inch cake or fill and frost round layers with frosting. Store covered in refrigerator.

GLUTEN-FREE COCONUT CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease a 9" spring-form cake pan.
• In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs; add the oil and beat; add the brown sugar and beat until smooth.
• Beat in the yogurt, vanilla, cinnamon and spice.
• Add in the baking mix and beat until combined. (The batter should be a bit thicker than wheat flour batter.).
• Add in the coconut, carrots, raisins, and nuts; stir with a wooden spoon to combine.
• Spread the batter evenly in the cake pan; and place the pan in the center of a pre-heated oven.
• Bake until the cake is firm, and a wooden pick inserted into the center emerges clean, about 40-45 minutes (or longer if necessary).
• Cool on a wire rack and frost with cream cheese icing.
• For cream cheese icing, beat the cream cheese and butter until fluffy.
• Add the vanilla.
• Add the powdered sugar a cup at a time; squeeze a little lemon (or other citrus) juice into the frosting and beat until smooth.
• Add more sugar or juice as necessary.
• Frost cooled cake.

GLUTEN FREE CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl beat eggs and sugar until pale yellow.
• Beat in sunflower oil and vanilla.
• Add shredded carrots, pineapple, coconut, raisins and walnuts; mix until thoroughly combined.
• In a separate bowl, whisk corn flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and xanthan gum together until well incorporated.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix together well.
• Pour into a large bundt pan or a 9x11 baking pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 50 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool completely and ice with your favorite cream cheese icing. (I use a plain vanilla glaze myself).

CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING - GLUTEN FREE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F )Grease a deep 23cm square cake tin and line the base and sides with baking paper.
• Combine the eggs, oil and brown sugar in a large bowl.
• Add the sifted flour, soda, salt and cinnamon. Beat with electric beaters until the mixture is smooth.
• Add the nuts and carrots and mix through well.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes. A skewer should come out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake.
• Allow the cake to rest in the tin for 20 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
• To make the frosting. Beat the cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and orange juice until the mixture is smooth and spreadable.
• Spread the icing over the cake.
• Decorate the cake with some extra chopped pecans or some orange or lemon zest if desired.