Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, 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 on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my entire 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 have to first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
  1. Prepare 160 ml sunflower oil
  2. Get 3 eggs
  3. Take 150 g carrot
  4. Prepare Zest of an orange
  5. Prepare 100 g raisins/sultanas
  6. Get 175 g light muscovado sugar
  7. Take 175 g self raising flour
  8. Make ready 1 tsp Cinammon
  9. Prepare 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
  10. Make ready 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  11. Take 100 g icing sugar
  12. Make ready Orange juice

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.

Instructions to make Carrot Cake:
  1. Grate the carrot.
  2. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180C. I wait for this step until I've grated the carrot or it reaches temperature too quickly! Line the tin with baking paper.
  3. Combine the grated carrot with the sugar, orange zest, oil, eggs and raisins in a large bowl.
  4. Add the flour, bicarb and spices. I always find freshly grated nutmeg gives more flavour.
  5. Mix all the ingredients together.
  6. Pour into a 18cm square baking tray and bake for roughly 40-45 minutes. The cake should be springy in the centre and a skewer should come out clean.
  7. Juice half the orange.
  8. Combine the orange juice with roughly 100g icing sugar- add gradually! You're looking for a consistency of double cream to drizzle over the cake

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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