Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.
Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Carrot cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Make ready Cake
- Prepare 260 g self-raising flour
- Get 1 tbsp baking powder
- Get 1 tbsp salt
- Get 2 tbsp cinnamon
- Take 1 tbsp ground ginger (you can add another tbsp if you like)
- Get (optional) 1/2 tsp chilli
- Take 320 g peeled and grated carrots (you can add more if you like)
- Prepare 130 g dark brown muscovado sugar
- Get 130 g light brown sugar
- Prepare 100 g chopped pecans
- Take 4 eggs
- Get 290 ml vegetable oil
- Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Prepare Icing
- Make ready 75 g butter
- Take 300 g full fat Philadelphia cheese
- Make ready 120 g icing sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Make ready Fresh ginger
- Prepare 50 g chopped pecans
This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter.
Steps to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat oven to fan 170C. Grease two 9 inch cake tins, and line the base with baking paper.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and chilli until well combined.
- Whisk oil, sugar, and vanilla until well combined. Then whisk the eggs one at a time.
- Fold in the dry mix gradually until you get a smooth batter. Then add carrots and pecans and mix well.
- Divide the batter evenly between the two tins and bake for 40-60 mins (check around the 40 min mark If a skewer comes out clean.
- Once baked, remove from oven but keep in the cake tins for 5-10 mins. Then transfer to a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
- For the icing, beat butter until soft. Add Philadelphia and beat again. Sift over the icing sugar and add vanilla and beat until well combined and smooth and then place in the fridge.
- (optional) for an extra kick, grate some fresh ginger on a kitchen roll, and then wrap it around and squeeze it over the icing. This should give 2-3 tbsp of sharp ginger juice (adjust to taste). Mix again until well combined.
- Once the cake is cool, spread half of the icing on the first cake then place the other cake on top and spread the rest of the icing. Decorate with chopped pecans.
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