Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
While the cake is cooling, combine powdered sugar, cream cheese, butter, and vanilla extract for frosting in. Add carrots, pineapple, nuts, Amarula Cream and apricot jam and mix by hand. Add the dry ingredients to the mixture and fold. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, stir into the wet mixture until absorbed.
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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Get 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Get 230 g self-raising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Get 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Prepare 100 g walnuts chopped
- Make ready 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Take 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Make ready for the icing:
- Take 50 g butter, softened
- Get 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Get 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Make ready For the orange peel glaze:
- Take 2 oranges
- Make ready 200 ml water
- Get 200 g caster sugar
This is the ultimate carrot cake! The sweetness of the carrots, the warmth of the cinnamon and ginger wrapped in a cream cheese frosting with the combination of the pecans makes for a complexity of flavors like no other cake. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. In another large bowl with a hand mixer (or in.
Instructions to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. In another large bowl with a hand mixer (or in. This carrot cake is hands-down the best carrot cake I have ever had. The cake is light and fluffy with a moist crumb that isn't dense or marshy. The carrot flavor is pronounced without being vegetal and the spices are perfectly balanced and provide a nice warmth.
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