Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
How to make carrot cake from scratch. This cake is quick and easy to make, versatile and utterly delicious. It wasn't until recently that we realized just how much we love carrot cake.
Carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Take 175 g plain flour
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Get 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Get 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Get 150 ml vegetable oil
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Make ready 200 g grated carrots
- Prepare 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Get For the filling:
- Prepare 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Make ready For the ganache:
- Prepare 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Prepare 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
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Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Butter and line with parchment a 20cm round tin. Grate the carrots – to get 200g you need to grate about 3 medium sized ones. Mix the flour with baking powder and the spices and put aside. Mix the sugar with the oil in a bowl of a standing mixer (or use a hand mixer), then beat in the eggs. Add the grated carrots, the raisins, sieve in the flour and spice mix and fold it all in with a spatula. Pour into the tin and bake for about 50 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool the cake in the tin.
- When completely cold, slice it across in two layers with a large bread knife. Spread apricot jam over the bottom half in a generous layer. Cover with the top half.
- Prepare the ganache: break up the chocolate into pieces as small as possible. Put the cream in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Immediately add the chocolate and leave to stand (in the microwave) for a minute or two. Whisk together into smooth ganache.
- Using a spoon, drizzle over the top of the cake, letting the ganache dribble over the sides as well. Serve with cream! clotted cream! custard! whipped cream! warm vanilla sauce! caramel sauce! And it’s lovely on its own, too.
It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting. A wonderfully moist, perfectly spiced carrot cake recipe. This Carrot Cake with pineapple and coconut is a family favorite, made every year for all sorts of celebrations from birthdays to Easter! Originally from the Silver Palate cookbook, we've made several. Cakes using vegetable are often noticeably more moist than cakes using butter.
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