Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Prepare 175 g plain flour
- Take 2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Get 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Take 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Make ready 150 ml vegetable oil
- Take 3 eggs
- Take 200 g grated carrots
- Get 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Prepare For the filling:
- Get 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Take For the ganache:
- Get 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Prepare 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added in the mix. This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere.
Steps 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.
It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Whether you want a carrot cake that's dense, moist and full of spice and nuts, or you like Try Rachel Allen's easiest carrot cake loaf for afternoon tea, Dan Lepard's carrot cake cupcakes for Easter, or. Spoon ¼ of the icing on top and spread in an even layer. Carrot Cake Recipe - How to Make Carrot Cake
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