Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first 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:
- Get 175 g self raising flour
- Make ready 175 ml sunflower oil
- Get 175 g light brown soft sugar
- Make ready 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Prepare 140 g grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots)
- Get 100 g raisins
- Make ready 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get For the icing:
- Get 110 g unsalted butter, softened
- Get 225 g full fat cream cheese
- Prepare 480 g icing sugar
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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.
Yep, consider yourself spoilt for choice! Mix all of the ingredients for the carrot cake, except the carrots and. Bake in a half sheet pan. The carrot cake has stood the test of time because essentially it is incredibly moist, keeps well and could not be easier to make. My version is a nod to to the classic cake of my childhood.
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