Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Delia's The Ultimate Carrot Cake recipe. Well, it has to be said. There have been many versions over the years, but this is the ultimate and it's great for a birthday or any other celebration.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Make ready 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Take 230 g self-raising flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Prepare 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Prepare 100 g walnuts chopped
- Get 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Take 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Make ready for the icing:
- Get 50 g butter, softened
- Make ready 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Make ready 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
- Prepare 200 ml water
- Get 200 g caster sugar
Ultimate Carrot Cake: This is a moistened very flavorful carrot cake, with a creamy lemon frosting, this carrot cake recipe is perfect classic favorite for a crowd and you might not have any leftovers to bring. This carrot cake recipe is a winner and I have had it saved for years. This Carrot Cake is hands down the best, most amazing, ultimate carrot cake. Yes, I know, I am biased.
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.
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