Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
If you're baking our Ultimate Carrot Cake for a special occasion or holiday, like Easter Sunday, you may also want to put in the time to master Candied Carrot Curls. Although not absolutely necessary to the cake, this pretty, colorful garnish is both unique and tasty. In a medium bowl, combine grated carrots and brown sugar. Remove from pans, and cool completely.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Make ready sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Prepare self-raising flour
- Take baking powder
- Get ground cinnamon
- Take mixed spice
- Prepare ground ginger
- Take light brown muscovado sugar
- Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Make ready walnuts chopped
- Get carrots, coarsely grated
- Get medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Make ready for the icing:
- Take butter, softened
- Get full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Prepare icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Prepare For the orange peel glaze:
- Make ready oranges
- Take water
- Get caster sugar
Ultimate Carrot Cake with Carrot Cake Jam Filling made with a luscious nut free carrot cake with pineapple, cream cheese frosting and the most amazing Carrot Cake Jam. We love our Classic Carrot Cake covered with Cream Cheese Frosting but this recipe takes that recipe to a whole new level with the introduction of the best jam you will ever eat. For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise.
Steps 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. You can't go wrong with this BEST EVER carrot cake!
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