Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Get Cake
- Prepare 260 g self-raising flour
- Take 1 tbsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp salt
- Get 2 tbsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tbsp ground ginger (you can add another tbsp if you like)
- Prepare (optional) 1/2 tsp chilli
- Make ready 320 g peeled and grated carrots (you can add more if you like)
- Get 130 g dark brown muscovado sugar
- Take 130 g light brown sugar
- Get 100 g chopped pecans
- Get 4 eggs
- Get 290 ml vegetable oil
- Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Prepare Icing
- Prepare 75 g butter
- Get 300 g full fat Philadelphia cheese
- Prepare 120 g icing sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Make ready Fresh ginger
- Take 50 g chopped pecans
Instructions 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.
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