Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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 get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Make ready 3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- Take 1 1/2 cup plus 2tbsps of vegetable oil
- Get 1 cup granulated sugar
- Prepare 1 cup brown sugar
- Prepare 6 eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1 lb (around 450g) of finely grated carrot
- Prepare 1 tbsp cinnamon, ground
- Make ready 1/4 tsp cloves, ground
- Take 1/2 tsp nutmeg, ground
- Take 2 1/2 tsp sea salt, fine
- Take 2 tbsp vanilla
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.
Steps to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius. Grease and flour your baking tin or coat it with baking spray. I used the tin below๐๐พ๐๐พ
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together oil, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until combined and smooth. Add in the eggs and vanilla, and whisk until smooth
- In another separate bowl, whisk together the remaining dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt) until combined.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients into the egg mixture and stir until smooth.
- Fold in the grated carrots and stir until combined
- If you would like to add nuts and/ or raisins, stir them in at this time as well
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking tin and bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean
- Transfer the baking tin to a wire cooling rack and let the cakes cool until they reach room temperature.
- Serve as a desert, snack or have it for breakfast ๐
- For the icing use the one that you prefer๐
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