Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Get 2 cups flour
- Prepare 2 teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Take 1 cup brown sugar
- Make ready 1/2 white sugar
- Get 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Take 4 large eggs
- Take 4 large peeled and grated carrot
- Get 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- Prepare Frosting
- Take 250 g cream cheese at room temperature
- Take 1 cup icing sugar
- Make ready 1/3 cup cream
- Get 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecan nuts for topping
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Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees
- Mix all the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, brown sugar, white sugar, in one bowl exclude the carrot and pecan nuts
- In another bowl mix all the wet ingredients.
- Add the wet ingredients - vegetable oil, vanilla essence, eggs, grated carrots, pecans to the dry and mix until it is all absorbed. Then add in the carrot and pecan nuts.
- Grease an oven proof dish, line with spray oil and add parchment paper if you want
- Add mixture into the pan and put in the oven for 50-60 minutes
- Poke the inside of the cake with a tooth pick to see if it is cooked on the inside
- Remove from the oven and let it sit and cool down
- In a bowl use a hand mixer to whip the cream cheese. Slowly add in the icing sugar and cream white continuing to mix
- Frost the cake with the frosting once the cake has cooled down. Add the pecan nuts on top in the end
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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