Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Prepare 160 ml sunflower oil
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Take 150 g carrot
- Get Zest of an orange
- Get 100 g raisins/sultanas
- Make ready 175 g light muscovado sugar
- Get 175 g self raising flour
- Get 1 tsp Cinammon
- Take 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Prepare 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Prepare 100 g icing sugar
- Take Orange juice
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Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Grate the carrot.
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180C. I wait for this step until I've grated the carrot or it reaches temperature too quickly! Line the tin with baking paper.
- Combine the grated carrot with the sugar, orange zest, oil, eggs and raisins in a large bowl.
- Add the flour, bicarb and spices. I always find freshly grated nutmeg gives more flavour.
- Mix all the ingredients together.
- Pour into a 18cm square baking tray and bake for roughly 40-45 minutes. The cake should be springy in the centre and a skewer should come out clean.
- Juice half the orange.
- Combine the orange juice with roughly 100g icing sugar- add gradually! You're looking for a consistency of double cream to drizzle over the cake
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. My mother used wholemeal flour but I am not going to even try and pretend this is healthy, so I have used plain flour.
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