Hi, I’m Clara. Today, we’re going to prepare carrot cake recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a easy recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tastier. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Carrot cake Recipe
Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To be with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Get 175 g plain flour
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Prepare 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Get 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Take 150 ml vegetable oil
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Get 200 g grated carrots
- Take 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Take For the filling:
- Get 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Make ready For the ganache:
- Prepare 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Make ready 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
Steps to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Butter and line with parchment a 20cm round tin. Grate the carrots – to get 200g you need to grate about 3 medium sized ones. Mix the flour with baking powder and the spices and put aside. Mix the sugar with the oil in a bowl of a standing mixer (or use a hand mixer), then beat in the eggs. Add the grated carrots, the raisins, sieve in the flour and spice mix and fold it all in with a spatula. Pour into the tin and bake for about 50 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool the cake in the tin.
- When completely cold, slice it across in two layers with a large bread knife. Spread apricot jam over the bottom half in a generous layer. Cover with the top half.
- Prepare the ganache: break up the chocolate into pieces as small as possible. Put the cream in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Immediately add the chocolate and leave to stand (in the microwave) for a minute or two. Whisk together into smooth ganache.
- Using a spoon, drizzle over the top of the cake, letting the ganache dribble over the sides as well. Serve with cream! clotted cream! custard! whipped cream! warm vanilla sauce! caramel sauce! And it’s lovely on its own, too.
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