Carrot cake
Carrot cake

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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.

Carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
  1. Take Cake
  2. Take 260 g self-raising flour
  3. Take 1 tbsp baking powder
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
  5. Get 2 tbsp cinnamon
  6. Take 1 tbsp ground ginger (you can add another tbsp if you like)
  7. Make ready (optional) 1/2 tsp chilli
  8. Take 320 g peeled and grated carrots (you can add more if you like)
  9. Get 130 g dark brown muscovado sugar
  10. Prepare 130 g light brown sugar
  11. Get 100 g chopped pecans
  12. Make ready 4 eggs
  13. Take 290 ml vegetable oil
  14. Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  15. Prepare Icing
  16. Make ready 75 g butter
  17. Take 300 g full fat Philadelphia cheese
  18. Prepare 120 g icing sugar
  19. Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  20. Make ready Fresh ginger
  21. Get 50 g chopped pecans

Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added in the mix. The origins of carrot cake are disputed.

Instructions to make Carrot cake:
  1. Preheat oven to fan 170C. Grease two 9 inch cake tins, and line the base with baking paper.
  2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and chilli until well combined.
  3. Whisk oil, sugar, and vanilla until well combined. Then whisk the eggs one at a time.
  4. Fold in the dry mix gradually until you get a smooth batter. Then add carrots and pecans and mix well.
  5. Divide the batter evenly between the two tins and bake for 40-60 mins (check around the 40 min mark If a skewer comes out clean.
  6. Once baked, remove from oven but keep in the cake tins for 5-10 mins. Then transfer to a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
  7. For the icing, beat butter until soft. Add Philadelphia and beat again. Sift over the icing sugar and add vanilla and beat until well combined and smooth and then place in the fridge.
  8. (optional) for an extra kick, grate some fresh ginger on a kitchen roll, and then wrap it around and squeeze it over the icing. This should give 2-3 tbsp of sharp ginger juice (adjust to taste). Mix again until well combined.
  9. Once the cake is cool, spread half of the icing on the first cake then place the other cake on top and spread the rest of the icing. Decorate with chopped pecans.

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