Hello, I am Elise. Today, we’re going to prepare carrot cake recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Carrot Cake Recipe
Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To be with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Take 160 ml sunflower oil
- Get 3 eggs
- Prepare 150 g carrot
- Prepare Zest of an orange
- Get 100 g raisins/sultanas
- Make ready 175 g light muscovado sugar
- Take 175 g self raising flour
- Take 1 tsp Cinammon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Make ready 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Get 100 g icing sugar
- Take Orange juice
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Grate the carrot.
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180C. I wait for this step until I’ve grated the carrot or it reaches temperature too quickly! Line the tin with baking paper.
- Combine the grated carrot with the sugar, orange zest, oil, eggs and raisins in a large bowl.
- Add the flour, bicarb and spices. I always find freshly grated nutmeg gives more flavour.
- Mix all the ingredients together.
- Pour into a 18cm square baking tray and bake for roughly 40-45 minutes. The cake should be springy in the centre and a skewer should come out clean.
- Juice half the orange.
- Combine the orange juice with roughly 100g icing sugar- add gradually! You’re looking for a consistency of double cream to drizzle over the cake
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