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Carrot cake Recipe
Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Take Cake
- Get 260 g self-raising flour
- Take 1 tbsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp salt
- Get 2 tbsp cinnamon
- Take 1 tbsp ground ger (you can add another tbsp if you like)
- Make ready (optional) 1/2 tsp chilli
- Prepare 320 g peeled and grated carrots (you can add more if you like)
- Prepare 130 g dark brown muscovado sugar
- Make ready 130 g light brown sugar
- Get 100 g chopped pecans
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Prepare 290 ml vegetable oil
- Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Take Icing
- Prepare 75 g butter
- Make ready 300 g full fat Philadelphia cheese
- Get 120 g icing sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Make ready Fresh ger
- Get 50 g chopped pecans
Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat oven to fan 170C. Grease two 9 inch cake tins, and line the base with baking paper.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ger and chilli until well combined.
- Whisk oil, sugar, and vanilla until well combined. Then whisk the eggs one at a time.
- Fold in the dry mix gradually until you get a smooth batter. Then add carrots and pecans and mix well.
- Divide the batter evenly between the two tins and bake for 40-60 mins (check around the 40 min mark If a skewer comes out clean.
- Once baked, remove from oven but keep in the cake tins for 5-10 mins. Then transfer to a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
- For the icing, beat butter until soft. Add Philadelphia and beat again. Sift over the icing sugar and add vanilla and beat until well combined and smooth and then place in the fridge.
- (optional) for an extra kick, grate some fresh ger on a kitchen roll, and then wrap it around and squeeze it over the icing. This should give 2-3 tbsp of sharp ger juice (adjust to taste). Mix again until well combined.
- Once the cake is cool, spread half of the icing on the first cake then place the other cake on top and spread the rest of the icing. Decorate with chopped pecans.
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