Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Make ready 175 g self raising flour
- Make ready 175 ml sunflower oil
- Make ready 175 g light brown soft sugar
- Make ready 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Make ready 140 g grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots)
- Prepare 100 g raisins
- Make ready 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Get 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take For the icing:
- Make ready 110 g unsalted butter, softened
- Take 225 g full fat cream cheese
- Make ready 480 g icing sugar
This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter.
Instructions to make Carrot Cake:
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Fan 160/Gas 4. - Grease & line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper. - Put the sugar into a mixing bowl, pour in the oil & add the eggs. Mix together lightly then stir in the carrots & raisins. - Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda & spices then sift into the bowl. Mix together gently until all the ingredients are incorporated. The mixture should be quite soft & runny.
- Divide the mixture between the prepared tins & bake for 40-45 minutes. To check insert a skewer or tip of a knife, if it comes out clean it's done. The cake should also feel firm & springy to touch. - Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes in their tins then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the icing beat together the butter & cream cheese then carefully mix in the icing sugar. I mix in about 1/3 at a time as it can get messy! - Place one of the cakes on a serving plate & spread with half of the icing. - Take the other cake & carefully place it on top then spread over the rest of the icing. - Decorate with walnut halves if you wish.
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