Hello, I’m Joana. Today, we’re going to prepare ultimate carrot cake recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a easy recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I’m gonna make it a little bit tastier. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Ultimate carrot cake Recipe
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Get 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Make ready 230 g self-raising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Take 1/2 tsp ground ger
- Prepare 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Get 100 g walnuts chopped
- Make ready 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Prepare 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Get for the icing:
- Prepare 50 g butter, softened
- Take 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Get 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Take Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Get For the orange peel glaze:
- Get 2 oranges
- Take 200 ml water
- Get 200 g caster sugar
Instructions to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Grease an 18cm loose-bottomed round cake tin and line the base with baking paper. Sift the flour, baking powder and spices into a large bowl. Add the sugar, zest, pecans and grated carrots, then stir until well combined. Stir in the beaten eggs and oil, then mix well.
- Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack, leave in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and leave to cool completely before icing.
- For the icing, beat the butter in a large bowl with a hand mixer until really soft. Add the cream cheese and beat again until well mixed. Sift over the icing sugar, add the orange zest, then beat until smooth. Store, covered, in the fridge until needed.
- For the orange peel, carefully pare the zest from the orange (a tool like this would be helpful). Put the water and sugar in a saucepan and heat until the sugar has dissolved. Add the orange zest and remove from the heat. Let the zest sit in the sugar syrup until it has completely cooled.
- Carefully cut the cake in half (watch our cheat’s how-to video here) then spread half the icing between the cake layers and the other half on top. Decorate with the orange zest strips.
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