Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Prepare 175 g plain flour
- Get 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Make ready 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Make ready 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Make ready 150 ml vegetable oil
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Prepare 200 g grated carrots
- Get 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Make ready For the filling:
- Take 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Make ready For the ganache:
- Take 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Get 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
Fold dry ingredients into wet mixture and blend well. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined. Stir in pineapple, coconut and nuts.
Instructions to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Butter and line with parchment a 20cm round tin. Grate the carrots – to get 200g you need to grate about 3 medium sized ones. Mix the flour with baking powder and the spices and put aside. Mix the sugar with the oil in a bowl of a standing mixer (or use a hand mixer), then beat in the eggs. Add the grated carrots, the raisins, sieve in the flour and spice mix and fold it all in with a spatula. Pour into the tin and bake for about 50 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool the cake in the tin.
- When completely cold, slice it across in two layers with a large bread knife. Spread apricot jam over the bottom half in a generous layer. Cover with the top half.
- Prepare the ganache: break up the chocolate into pieces as small as possible. Put the cream in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Immediately add the chocolate and leave to stand (in the microwave) for a minute or two. Whisk together into smooth ganache.
- Using a spoon, drizzle over the top of the cake, letting the ganache dribble over the sides as well. Serve with cream! clotted cream! custard! whipped cream! warm vanilla sauce! caramel sauce! And it’s lovely on its own, too.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
Add the eggs, oil, carrots and vanilla; beat until combined. Stir in pineapple, coconut and nuts. Stir in carrots, coconut, vanilla, and pineapple. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; gently stir into carrot mixture. Remove from oven, and set aside to cool.
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