Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Ultimate carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Get 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Take 230 g self-raising flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 1⁄2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1⁄2 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 1⁄2 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Take 100 g walnuts chopped
- Prepare 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Make ready 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Make ready for the icing:
- Take 50 g butter, softened
- Make ready 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Get 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Get Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Get For the orange peel glaze:
- Make ready 2 oranges
- Take 200 ml water
- Make ready 200 g caster sugar
Baking soda helps the cake to rise. Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work. Carrot Cake is such a classic, especially this time of year with Easter approaching.
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.
Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work. 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. Beyond that, variations include everything from pineapple and coconut to pecans and raisins. Ultimate Carrot Cake with Carrot Cake Jam Filling made with a luscious nut free carrot cake with pineapple, cream cheese frosting and the most amazing Carrot Cake Jam.
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