Hi, I am Clara. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare carrot cake recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a very easy recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I am going to 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 popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To be with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Prepare 175 g plain flour
- Take 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Get 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Make ready 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Make ready 150 ml vegetable oil
- Make ready 3 eggs
- Prepare 200 g grated carrots
- Prepare 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Prepare For the filling:
- Take 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Get For the ganache:
- Make ready 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Take 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
Instructions 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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