Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special 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 recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Prepare For the sponge:
- Take 250 g self-raising flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare 100 g light brown sugar
- Make ready 150 g caster sugar
- Make ready 150 g vegetable oil
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 275 g grated carrots
- Take 230 g tin of pineapple chunks
- Make ready 75 g walnuts, chopped
- Prepare For the cream cheese frosting:
- Make ready 200 g butter, room temperature
- Take 200 g cream cheese, drained
- Take 500 g icing sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get Zest of 1 orange
- Make ready Walnuts for decorating
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. This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere.
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Grease and line 3 8 inch cake tins, I use Trex to grease my tins.
- Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon to a large bowl. Whisk together the sugars, oil, eggs, in a separate large bowl, make sure everything is well combined. Add the flour mix to the wet ingredients and combine well.
- Drain the pineapple, then blitz in a food processor, drain the pineapple again.
- Fold in the pineapple, carrots, and walnuts to the cake mix. Equally, divide the mixture between the cake pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes. Cool the cakes in the tins for 5-10 minutes, then turn out and allow to cool completely.
- Meanwhile make the cream cheese frosting. Beat the butter and cream cheese together, once combined stop, do not overbeat (I use a stand mixer but you could use a hand mixer or make it by hand).
- Sift the icing sugar and add half to the butter mix along with the vanilla paste and orange zest, beat until combined, then add the second half of the icing sugar.
- Add a little frosting to your cake board, attach you first layer of cake, cover with a layer of frosting, then another round of cake and continue until you have stacked all three cakes. You can then choose to cover the whole cake in frosting or just the top and decorate the top with walnut halves.
It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Whether you want a carrot cake that's dense, moist and full of spice and nuts, or you like Try Rachel Allen's easiest carrot cake loaf for afternoon tea, Dan Lepard's carrot cake cupcakes for Easter, or. Spoon ¼ of the icing on top and spread in an even layer. Carrot Cake Recipe - How to Make Carrot Cake
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