Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. 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 on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Get plain flour
- Prepare baking powder
- Make ready cinnamon
- Take ground cloves
- Prepare grated nutmeg
- Prepare soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Take vegetable oil
- Get eggs
- Get grated carrots
- Get raisins or sultanas
- Take For the filling:
- Prepare generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Get For the ganache:
- Make ready white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Prepare double cream
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.
Steps to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Butter and line with parchment a 20cm round tin. Grate the carrots – to get 200g you need to grate about 3 medium sized ones. Mix the flour with baking powder and the spices and put aside. Mix the sugar with the oil in a bowl of a standing mixer (or use a hand mixer), then beat in the eggs. Add the grated carrots, the raisins, sieve in the flour and spice mix and fold it all in with a spatula. Pour into the tin and bake for about 50 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool the cake in the tin.
- When completely cold, slice it across in two layers with a large bread knife. Spread apricot jam over the bottom half in a generous layer. Cover with the top half.
- Prepare the ganache: break up the chocolate into pieces as small as possible. Put the cream in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Immediately add the chocolate and leave to stand (in the microwave) for a minute or two. Whisk together into smooth ganache.
- Using a spoon, drizzle over the top of the cake, letting the ganache dribble over the sides as well. Serve with cream! clotted cream! custard! whipped cream! warm vanilla sauce! caramel sauce! And it’s lovely on its own, too.
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