Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
I finally added a video to my old and trusty recipe for carrot cake, revamped with coconut oil this time. If you want to decorate it with candied carrots, simply slice them thinly and boil for a couple minutes in a syrup made from equal parts sugar and water. Carrot Cake is one of those classic recipes that works so well for any celebration. The bright orange color offset by creamy white frosting makes Carrot Cake the star of any dessert tray.
Carrot cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Get 155 ml sunflower oil plus extra for greasing
- Make ready 230 g self- raising flower
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 and a half tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 1/2 tsp group ginger
- Get 230 g brown sugar
- Take Zest of 1 lemon
- Get 260 g grated carrots
- Prepare 100 g halved walnuts
- Make ready 3 medium eggs, beaten
- Prepare Icing
- Take 50 g softened butter
- Get 200 g Philadelphia
- Make ready 100 g icing sugar
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! Says that it rivals his favorite carrot cake recipe.
Steps to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4
- Grease a 18 cm cake tin and line with baking parchment
- Sift the flour baking powder and spices in to a large bowl
- Add sugar, zest, walnuts and grated carrots then stir
- Stir in the beaten eggs and oil and mix well
- Bake for 1 hour
- While the cake is cooking make the icing
- Top with the icing and ur done
I made this cake with a few modifications and he LOVES it! Says that it rivals his favorite carrot cake recipe. Stir in pineapple, coconut and nuts. For frosting, beat cream cheese and butter in a small bowl until fluffy. Add the confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth.
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