Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Get 175 g self raising flour
- Make ready 175 ml sunflower oil
- Take 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
- Prepare For the icing:
- Prepare 110 g unsalted butter, softened
- Take 225 g full fat cream cheese
- Take 480 g icing sugar
Instructions 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.
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