Ultimate carrot cake
Ultimate carrot cake

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Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Ultimate carrot cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
  1. Take 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
  2. Take 230 g self-raising flour
  3. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  4. Get 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  5. Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice
  6. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  7. Get 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
  8. Get Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
  9. Take 100 g walnuts chopped
  10. Prepare 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
  11. Take 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
  12. Get for the icing:
  13. Take 50 g butter, softened
  14. Get 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
  15. Take 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
  16. Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 orange
  17. Prepare For the orange peel glaze:
  18. Get 2 oranges
  19. Prepare 200 ml water
  20. Prepare 200 g caster sugar

However, once iced with cream cheese frosting, they should be stored in the fridge. You can freeze an un-iced carrot cake for up to. For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise.

Steps to make Ultimate carrot cake:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Grease an 18cm loose-bottomed round cake tin and line the base with baking paper. Sift the flour, baking powder and spices into a large bowl. Add the sugar, zest, pecans and grated carrots, then stir until well combined. Stir in the beaten eggs and oil, then mix well.
  2. Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack, leave in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and leave to cool completely before icing.
  3. For the icing, beat the butter in a large bowl with a hand mixer until really soft. Add the cream cheese and beat again until well mixed. Sift over the icing sugar, add the orange zest, then beat until smooth. Store, covered, in the fridge until needed.
  4. For the orange peel, carefully pare the zest from the orange (a tool like this would be helpful). Put the water and sugar in a saucepan and heat until the sugar has dissolved. Add the orange zest and remove from the heat. Let the zest sit in the sugar syrup until it has completely cooled.
  5. Carefully cut the cake in half (watch our cheat’s how-to video here) then spread half the icing between the cake layers and the other half on top. Decorate with the orange zest strips.

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. Carrot Cake is such a classic, especially this time of year with Easter approaching.

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