Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Take 175 g self raising flour
- Take 175 ml sunflower oil
- Get 175 g light brown soft sugar
- Make ready 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Take 140 g grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots)
- Make ready 100 g raisins
- Get 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Get 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Make ready For the icing:
- Take 110 g unsalted butter, softened
- Prepare 225 g full fat cream cheese
- Take 480 g icing sugar
Different from traditional carrot cakes, this cake is extremely moist and flavorful and is topped with a buttermilk glaze while still warm. Try it and I think you will agree that it is the best!! In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Fan 160/Gas 4. - Grease & line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper. - Put the sugar into a mixing bowl, pour in the oil & add the eggs. Mix together lightly then stir in the carrots & raisins. - Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda & spices then sift into the bowl. Mix together gently until all the ingredients are incorporated. The mixture should be quite soft & runny.
- Divide the mixture between the prepared tins & bake for 40-45 minutes. To check insert a skewer or tip of a knife, if it comes out clean it's done. The cake should also feel firm & springy to touch. - Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes in their tins then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the icing beat together the butter & cream cheese then carefully mix in the icing sugar. I mix in about 1/3 at a time as it can get messy! - Place one of the cakes on a serving plate & spread with half of the icing. - Take the other cake & carefully place it on top then spread over the rest of the icing. - Decorate with walnut halves if you wish.
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. What Ingredients Make The Perfect Carrot Cake? Carrot Cake is such a classic, especially this time of year with Easter approaching. Many have strong opinions about what makes the perfect carrot cake, but there's no doubt that it should be moist, simple to make and full of carrots. While some recipe historians trace the roots of carrot cake back to medieval times, we disagree.
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