Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The Ultimate Carrot Cake Recipe 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. Garden parties, baby showers, ladies luncheons - all are a fantastic occasion (and great excuse!) to dig for Mama's tattered recipe cards and bake. I made this recipe in hopes my cake hating husband would eat a slice.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Ultimate carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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
- Get 230 g self-raising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Prepare 100 g walnuts chopped
- Make ready 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Prepare 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Prepare for the icing:
- Get 50 g butter, softened
- Get 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Get 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Take Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Take For the orange peel glaze:
- Take 2 oranges
- Take 200 ml water
- Take 200 g caster sugar
Print Pin Rate Add to My Meal Plan Go to Meal Plan. There are a few key signs spring has sprung: tulips blooming, birds chirping and spiced carrot cake baking in the oven. Serving up a slice of this easy carrot cake with sweet cream cheese frosting is almost a rite of passage as the seasons change! This recipe requires no peeling and shredding carrots, thanks to Betty's carrot cake mix, and don't think less of this cake just because it.
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.
This is the best carrot cake you will ever make - and I don't say that lightly! It's moist, but not too moist, and it's FULL of flavor! The perfect blend of spices, carrots and depth of flavor. I not only tested it against all the different versions, but also against some other popular versions. Taste testers all agreed this was the best!
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