Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
While the cakes are cooking make the icing by simply whisking the mascarpone, cinnamon, milk (or orange juice) and sugar in a bowl till smooth and fluffy. Then cover the bowl and chill until needed. It's topped with cream cheese frosting, and decorated with a crown of orange zest.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Take 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Make ready 230 g self-raising flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Take 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Get 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Get Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Prepare 100 g walnuts chopped
- Take 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Get 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Get for the icing:
- Prepare 50 g butter, softened
- Get 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Prepare 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Take Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Make ready For the orange peel glaze:
- Make ready 2 oranges
- Get 200 ml water
- Make ready 200 g caster sugar
This recipe is a traditional carrot cake, topped with a cream cheese frosting. 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.
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.
For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. 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. However, once iced with cream cheese frosting, they should be stored in the fridge.
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