Hi, I’m Laura. Today, I will show you a way to make carrot & coconut cake recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a very easy recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I’m gonna make it a bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Carrot & Coconut Cake Recipe
Carrot & Coconut Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Carrot & Coconut Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To be with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have carrot & coconut cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot & Coconut Cake:
- Prepare 250 g plain flour
- Prepare 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Make ready 2 teaspoons bicarb of soda
- Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Get 250 g caster sugar
- Take 4 eggs (medium)
- Take 1 cup apple sauce
- Take 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- Get 500 g carrots (grated)
- Make ready 100 g dessicated coconut
- Take zest of an orange
- Prepare juice of 1 orange
- Take 75 g sultanas
- Take 50 g walnuts (chopped)
- Get For the ganache
- Get 200 g dark chocolate
- Make ready 150 g double cream
Steps to make Carrot & Coconut Cake:
- Pre-heat oven to gas mark 4/180 degrees C/350 degrees F
- Grease & line a 23cm springform baking tin (square or round)
- In a large bowl beat the eggs & sugar together until pale and thick. Next, add the oil & apple sauce and mix well.
- Now add the flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, coconut, orange zest, sultanas & walnuts and mix thoroughly.
- Add the orange juice and beat through so it’s all well mixed. Finally, add the carrot and fold in well.
- Pour the mixture into the cake tin and pop into the oven. Bake for an hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Let it rest on the side for 15 minutes and then take out of the tin and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- For the ganache, melt the chocolate in a bowl in a microwave. Just do this by blasting it for 30 seconds at a time a stirring until it’s all melted. Add the cream to the chocolate and whisk it until it’s all combined and thick. Cover evenly over the top of the cake, smooth some down the sides if you like too. Leave on the side to set, or even pop into the fridge for 30-45 minutes.
- Store in the fridge for up to 3 days.
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