Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. 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 bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Take Cake
- Take 260 g self-raising flour
- Get 1 tbsp baking powder
- Take 1 tbsp salt
- Take 2 tbsp cinnamon
- Prepare 1 tbsp ground ginger (you can add another tbsp if you like)
- Prepare (optional) 1/2 tsp chilli
- Prepare 320 g peeled and grated carrots (you can add more if you like)
- Prepare 130 g dark brown muscovado sugar
- Make ready 130 g light brown sugar
- Get 100 g chopped pecans
- Take 4 eggs
- Prepare 290 ml vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Prepare Icing
- Take 75 g butter
- Make ready 300 g full fat Philadelphia cheese
- Get 120 g icing sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Take Fresh ginger
- Make ready 50 g chopped pecans
Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added in the mix. The origins of carrot cake are disputed. This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere.
Steps to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat oven to fan 170C. Grease two 9 inch cake tins, and line the base with baking paper.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and chilli until well combined.
- Whisk oil, sugar, and vanilla until well combined. Then whisk the eggs one at a time.
- Fold in the dry mix gradually until you get a smooth batter. Then add carrots and pecans and mix well.
- Divide the batter evenly between the two tins and bake for 40-60 mins (check around the 40 min mark If a skewer comes out clean.
- Once baked, remove from oven but keep in the cake tins for 5-10 mins. Then transfer to a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
- For the icing, beat butter until soft. Add Philadelphia and beat again. Sift over the icing sugar and add vanilla and beat until well combined and smooth and then place in the fridge.
- (optional) for an extra kick, grate some fresh ginger on a kitchen roll, and then wrap it around and squeeze it over the icing. This should give 2-3 tbsp of sharp ginger juice (adjust to taste). Mix again until well combined.
- Once the cake is cool, spread half of the icing on the first cake then place the other cake on top and spread the rest of the icing. Decorate with chopped pecans.
It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Whether you want a carrot cake that's dense, moist and full of spice and nuts, or you like Try Rachel Allen's easiest carrot cake loaf for afternoon tea, Dan Lepard's carrot cake cupcakes for Easter, or. Carrot Cake Recipe - How to Make Carrot Cake This Carrot Cake is wonderfully moist, tender and easy to make!
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