Easy carrot cake
Cassie Best · bbcgoodfood.com · 2025 · Serves 10-12
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
More fat than 93% of recipes and no salt, unlike 70%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 93% of recipes: 118% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
- No salt at all, where 70% of recipes use some (most of those 0.3 to 1.8% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (15)
- 230ml vegetable oil plus extra for the tin≈ 212 g
- 100g natural yogurt100 g
- 4 large eggs≈ 200 g
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract≈ 6 g
- ½ orange zestedn/a
- 265g self-raising flour265 g
- 335g light muscovado sugar335 g
- 2½ tsp ground cinnamon≈ 7 g
- ¼ fresh nutmeg finely gratedn/a
- 265g carrots (about 3), grated265 g
- 100g sultanas or raisins100 g
- 100g walnuts or pecans, roughly chopped (optional)100 g
- 100g slightly salted butter softened100 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 300g icing sugar300 g
- 100g soft cheese100 g
flour 265 gbatter 1690 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 260 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Carrot100% · 40th percentile · median 107%
- Sugar126% · 62nd percentile · median 107%
- Fat118% · 94th percentile · median 78%
- Egg76% · 63rd percentile · median 68%
- Spice2.5% · 70th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening5% · 56th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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