Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, ultimate carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Make ready 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Prepare 230 g self-raising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Take 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Make ready 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
- Make ready 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Take 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Make ready For the orange peel glaze:
- Get 2 oranges
- Make ready 200 ml water
- Get 200 g caster sugar
There's a reason I've called this the The Ultimate Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting: it's extra moist and tender and flavored with the perfect blend of spices. Walnut oil gives this cake's flavor special depth, and toasted walnut oil gives the very best result. Cakes are welcome on a Southerner's table year-round, but there's something about spring that makes us want to pull out our cake pans and build a layer cake. This Carrot Cake is hands down the best, most amazing, ultimate carrot cake.
Steps 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.
Cakes are welcome on a Southerner's table year-round, but there's something about spring that makes us want to pull out our cake pans and build a layer cake. This Carrot Cake is hands down the best, most amazing, ultimate carrot cake. Yes, I know, I am biased. But here's the thing, I am a pretty by the book person and I give you all the classics. Fold the carrot, raisins (and any liquid) into the flour mixture.
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