Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

My fiance LOVES carrot cake, and yesterday was his birthday so I decided to look for a carrot cake recipe. He was very specific that he wanted pineapple, coconut and lots of nuts in his carrot cake. I made this cake with a few modifications and he LOVES it!

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
  1. Make ready 175 g brown sugar (unrefined cane sugar)
  2. Prepare 175 ml sunflower oil
  3. Make ready 3 large eggs (lightly beaten)
  4. Take 140 g carrots (grated)
  5. Prepare 80 g dried fruit (raisins/prunes/cranberry)
  6. Get zest of 1 orange (graded)
  7. Prepare 175 g self-raising flour
  8. Take 1 tsp baking soda
  9. Make ready 1 tsp ground cinnamon

In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. I like using all-purpose flour, but you can substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat or white whole wheat flour.

Steps to make Carrot Cake:
  1. Oil a medium-sized cake tin, and line it with baking paper. Heat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
  2. In a large bowl put sugar, sunflower oil and beaten eggs. Mix with a wooden spoon. Stir in grated carrots, dried fruit (I used chopped prunes as I don't like raisins) and grated orange zest.
  3. Add flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Mix everything together, the mixture will be soft and almost runny.
  4. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes.
  5. Allow the cake to cool before serving. You can top it with icing or just sprinkle some icing sugar.

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. While some recipe historians trace the roots of carrot cake back to medieval times, we disagree.

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