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Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Carrot cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Not too sweet, too dense, oily or spicy as some carrot cakes can be. The frosting is a tried and true basic cream cheese frosting. Easy to mix and fool proof, this could easily be your go-to carrot cake recipe.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:

1. Prepare Cake
2. Make ready 260 g self-raising flour
3. Make ready 1 tbsp baking powder
4. Take 1 tbsp salt
5. Get 2 tbsp cinnamon
6. Make ready 1 tbsp ground ginger (you can add another tbsp if you like)
7. Get (optional) 1/2 tsp chilli
8. Take 320 g peeled and grated carrots (you can add more if you like)
9. Get 130 g dark brown muscovado sugar
10. Get 130 g light brown sugar
11. Prepare 100 g chopped pecans
12. Prepare 4 eggs
13. Prepare 290 ml vegetable oil
14. Prepare 1 tbsp vanilla extract
15. Take Icing
16. Make ready 75 g butter
17. Get 300 g full fat Philadelphia cheese
18. Prepare 120 g icing sugar
19. Get 1 tbsp vanilla extract
20. Make ready Fresh ginger
21. Make ready 50 g chopped pecans

Classic old-fashioned carrots cake often include pineapple. While ours doesn't include any, this recipe works well with it. Then let them cool for a few minutes in the cupcake pan before transferring them to a cooling rack. A great thing about making a carrot cake from scratch is that you can control what you decide to put into it.

Instructions to make Carrot cake:

1. Preheat oven to fan 170C. Grease two 9 inch cake tins, and line the base with baking paper.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and chilli until well combined.
3. Whisk oil, sugar, and vanilla until well combined. Then whisk the eggs one at a time.
4. Fold in the dry mix gradually until you get a smooth batter. Then add carrots and pecans and mix well.
5. Divide the batter evenly between the two tins and bake for 40-60 mins (check around the 40 min mark If a skewer comes out clean.
6. Once baked, remove from oven but keep in the cake tins for 5-10 mins. Then transfer to a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
7. For the icing, beat butter until soft. Add Philadelphia and beat again. Sift over the icing sugar and add vanilla and beat until well combined and smooth and then place in the fridge.
8. (optional) for an extra kick, grate some fresh ginger on a kitchen roll, and then wrap it around and squeeze it over the icing. This should give 2-3 tbsp of sharp ginger juice (adjust to taste). Mix again until well combined.
9. Once the cake is cool, spread half of the icing on the first cake then place the other cake on top and spread the rest of the icing. Decorate with chopped pecans.

This cake has many options, allowing you to personalize to your tastes. It's written as I like it best, but you can make adjustments as you like. One of the less common things this carrot cake contains is carrot puree. All ovens and bundt pans are different, so that's why the bake time varies. Moist, flavorful, and covered in creamy frosting, carrot cake is a perfectly delightful dessert that satisfies a certain craving in a way unlike any other classic Southern cake.

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