Carrot cake
Carrot cake

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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 recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
  1. Make ready For the cake
  2. Prepare 175 g plain flour
  3. Get 175 g brown sugar
  4. Prepare 175 ml sunflower oil
  5. Take 140 g grated carrot
  6. Get 100 g raisins
  7. Get 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  8. Make ready 3 large eggs
  9. Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder or bicarbonate of soda
  10. Make ready 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  11. Get 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  12. Get 1 orange (optional)
  13. Prepare For the topping
  14. Get 200 g cream cheese
  15. Prepare 150 g caster sugar
  16. Prepare 100 g softened butter
  17. Take 1 orange (optional)
  18. Take Handful chopped walnuts (optional)

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. Heat the oven to 180C / fan 160C. Oil and line the base and sides of a cake tin with baking paper. I used a square tin about 22cm across - you’ll need to adjust temperature and heat if you’re using a differently sized tin.
  2. Lightly beat the eggs and mix them with the brown sugar, sunflower oil and vanilla. You can use any type of brown sugar, and substitute vegetable oil if you don’t have sunflower.
  3. Stir in the carrots, raisins and if you want an extra bit of zing add the grated zest of 1 large orange.
  4. Sift in the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg, and mix it all together. You’ll have a fairly runny batter.
  5. Pour the mixture into your prepared tin, and bake for 30 minutes. If you’re using a smaller tin, you may want a lower temperature and a longer cooking time. It’s done when it feels firm and springy, and a skewer comes out clean.
  6. While the cake is baking, make the topping. Make sure the butter is softened, rather than melted, and mix together with the cream cheese and sugar until it’s light and fluffy. I also mixed in the juice of half an orange. If it’s a bit loose, you can put it in the fridge to set a little.
  7. Once your cake is cooked, leave it to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely before you add the topping. Don’t be tempted to do this too soon, or you’ll end up with a runny mess.
  8. When ready, spread the topping generously over the cake, all the way to the edges. Finish with some orange zest and chopped walnuts.

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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