Carrot cake
Carrot cake

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Carrot cake is something that I’ve 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 must first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
  1. Make ready 375 g finely grated carrots
  2. Get 100 g raisins
  3. Take 450 g all purepose flour
  4. Take 1 tsp b. Soda
  5. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp b. Powder
  6. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  7. Get 11/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  8. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  9. Take 1/2 teaspon ginger
  10. Get 4 large eggs
  11. Take 340 white sugar
  12. Prepare 240 ml oil
  13. Prepare 2 tsp pure vanilla extract

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. Pre heat oven to 180°c
  2. Grease 2 9"×2" (23cm×5cm) cake pans.
  3. Whisk flour and all dry ingredients.
  4. Beat the eggs until frothy, about a min., add sugar gradually and beat until thick and light coloured. 3 -4 min. Add oil in a steady stream and beat in vanilla.
  5. Add flour mixture and beat just until incorporated.
  6. Fold in grated carrots and raisins, divide between the pans and bake 25-30 mins. Or until a skewer comes out clean.
  7. Cool on a wire 10 mins then turn cakes on to a rack to cool completely.
  8. I did a simple lemon icing to cover

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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