My carrot cake
My carrot cake

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, my carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Growing up, my mom made it for my birthday every year and the ONLY thing that competed was a batch of carrot cake cupcakes on the side. I've adopted this tradition and make my own carrot birthday cake each year. Carrot cake is my husbands favorite cake, so I've had quite a few over the years.

My carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. My carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook my carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make My carrot cake:
  1. Get 400 ml vegetable oil
  2. Make ready 200 g plain flour
  3. Make ready 200 g self-raising flour
  4. Make ready 2 tablespoons bicarbonate of soda
  5. Get 450 g Demerara sugar
  6. Get 4 eggs
  7. Take 1 pinch salt
  8. Prepare 6 medium size of carrots
  9. Prepare 100 g sultanas
  10. Make ready 100 g pecan nuts
  11. Prepare 150 g soft cheese
  12. Get 25 ml double cream
  13. Take 100 g icing sugar

Cream cheese frosting is the standard when it comes to carrot cake and with good reason. Soft and gooey with a hint of tang from the cream cheese - it's the perfect complement! Or you can leave the cake plain without any add-ins. Or try my carrot cake cupcakes recipe.

Steps to make My carrot cake:
  1. Turn the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grate the carrots and chop the pecan nuts. Combine all the ingredients together by starting with the vegetable oil, both flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, give it a stir at this stage. Then add the sugar, and eggs, stir again. Finally, when all the ingredients have been combined properly add the carrots, sultanas and pecan nuts.
  2. Bake it for one hour in cake mould which has been greased first.
  3. Spread the frosting on top of the cake. Enjoy!

Pour the oil mixture into the flour mixture and gently stir until well combined. Fold in carrot and walnuts and combine well. Once cooked remove from oven and set aside to slightly cool before removing and placing on wire rack to allow to completely cool. My family's best carrot cake recipe dates back to my great-grandmother! We bake up a few of these carrot cakes for special occasions to make sure there's enough to go around.

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