Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Take 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Get 230 g self-raising flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Take 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Get Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Prepare 100 g walnuts chopped
- Take 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Make ready 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Take for the icing:
- Prepare 50 g butter, softened
- Get 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Take 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Get Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Make ready For the orange peel glaze:
- Take 2 oranges
- Make ready 200 ml water
- Prepare 200 g caster sugar
However, once iced with cream cheese frosting, they should be stored in the fridge. You can freeze an un-iced carrot cake for up to. For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise.
Steps to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Grease an 18cm loose-bottomed round cake tin and line the base with baking paper. Sift the flour, baking powder and spices into a large bowl. Add the sugar, zest, pecans and grated carrots, then stir until well combined. Stir in the beaten eggs and oil, then mix well.
- Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack, leave in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and leave to cool completely before icing.
- For the icing, beat the butter in a large bowl with a hand mixer until really soft. Add the cream cheese and beat again until well mixed. Sift over the icing sugar, add the orange zest, then beat until smooth. Store, covered, in the fridge until needed.
- For the orange peel, carefully pare the zest from the orange (a tool like this would be helpful). Put the water and sugar in a saucepan and heat until the sugar has dissolved. Add the orange zest and remove from the heat. Let the zest sit in the sugar syrup until it has completely cooled.
- Carefully cut the cake in half (watch our cheat’s how-to video here) then spread half the icing between the cake layers and the other half on top. Decorate with the orange zest strips.
For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise. Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work. Carrot Cake is such a classic, especially this time of year with Easter approaching.
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