Ultimate carrot cake
Ultimate carrot cake

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

The Ultimate Carrot Cake Recipe Cakes are welcome on a Southerner's table year-round, but there's something about spring that makes us want to pull out our cake pans and build a layer cake. I just have to say I initially signed up to review this recipe! It really is the best carrot cake ever!

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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:
  1. Make ready 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
  2. Take 230 g self-raising flour
  3. Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
  4. Get 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  5. Get 1/2 tsp mixed spice
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  7. Get 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
  8. Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
  9. Take 100 g walnuts chopped
  10. Get 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
  11. Get 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
  12. Get for the icing:
  13. Take 50 g butter, softened
  14. Take 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
  15. Make ready 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
  16. Take Finely grated zest of 1 orange
  17. Get For the orange peel glaze:
  18. Take 2 oranges
  19. Make ready 200 ml water
  20. Take 200 g caster sugar

Print Pin Rate Add to My Meal Plan Go to Meal Plan. This is the best carrot cake you will ever make - and I don't say that lightly! It's moist, but not too moist, and it's FULL of flavor! The perfect blend of spices, carrots and depth of flavor.

Steps to make Ultimate carrot cake:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

I not only tested it against all the different versions, but also against some other popular versions. Taste testers all agreed this was the best! There are a few key signs spring has sprung: tulips blooming, birds chirping and spiced carrot cake baking in the oven. Serving up a slice of this easy carrot cake with sweet cream cheese frosting is almost a rite of passage as the seasons change! This recipe requires no peeling and shredding carrots, thanks to Betty's carrot cake mix, and don't think less of this cake just because it.

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