The best carrot & pineapple cake :)

Assalamualaikum,

Eid Mubarak to all of you.I wonder if there any readers out there? :)
Well, I know this is such a long silent despite I have so many things to share here. By the way have u had enough with the yummy food last Eid? I'm going to share the best recipe i ever tried.

Carrot & pineapple cake with cream cheese frosting. Made this during last eid Adha and Alhamdulillah, I received just wonderful responses from family how good it taste :)

The recipe can be ladled from the show “barefoot contessa” with Ina Garten and wee changes were made to the recipe :)

For the cake
2 cups caster sugar
1 1/3 cups vegetable oil (i'm using corn oil)
3 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2½ cups self raising flour
1 tablespoon 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking soda -omit this cause I'm using self rasing flour
1 teaspoons salt
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped walnut
2 stick of carrots, grated
½ cup diced fresh pineapple (can pineapple)-rinsed the liquid

For the frosting:
250 g cream cheese, at room temperature
100 g of butter , at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 pound confectioners’ sugar, sieved


Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Butter two 8-inch round cake pans. Line with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans. Beat the sugar, oil, and eggs together in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until light yellow. Add the vanilla.


In another bowl, sift together 2½ cups flour, the cinnamon, and salt.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.

Toss the raisins and walnuts with 1 tablespoon flour. Fold in the carrots and pineapple.

Add to the batter and mix well. Divide the batter equally between the two pans.

Allow the cakes to cool completely in the pans set over a wire rack.


For the frosting, mix the cream cheese, butter and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until just combined.


Add the sugar and mix until smooth.


Place one layer, flat side up, on a flat plate or cake pedestal. With a knife or offset spatula, spread the top with frosting. Place the second layer on top, rounded side up, and spread the frosting evenly on the top and sides of the cake.

Enjoy :)