Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice 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 first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Prepare sunflower oil
- Take eggs
- Take carrot
- Get Zest of an orange
- Get raisins/sultanas
- Make ready light muscovado sugar
- Prepare self raising flour
- Prepare Cinammon
- Get grated nutmeg
- Make ready bicarbonate of soda
- Make ready icing sugar
- Get Orange juice
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:
- Grate the carrot.
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180C. I wait for this step until I've grated the carrot or it reaches temperature too quickly! Line the tin with baking paper.
- Combine the grated carrot with the sugar, orange zest, oil, eggs and raisins in a large bowl.
- Add the flour, bicarb and spices. I always find freshly grated nutmeg gives more flavour.
- Mix all the ingredients together.
- Pour into a 18cm square baking tray and bake for roughly 40-45 minutes. The cake should be springy in the centre and a skewer should come out clean.
- Juice half the orange.
- Combine the orange juice with roughly 100g icing sugar- add gradually! You're looking for a consistency of double cream to drizzle over the cake
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