Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Carrot cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must 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
- Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Get 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Get 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Make ready 150 ml vegetable oil
- Take 3 eggs
- Get 200 g grated carrots
- Get 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Make ready For the filling:
- Prepare 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Get For the ganache:
- Prepare 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Take 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
Different from traditional carrot cakes, this cake is extremely moist and flavorful and is topped with a buttermilk glaze while still warm. Try it and I think you will agree that it is the best!! In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
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.
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. Get Carrot Cake Recipe from Food Network. Carrot Cake is such a classic, especially this time of year with Easter approaching. Many have strong opinions about what makes the perfect carrot cake, but there's no doubt that it should be moist, simple to make and full of carrots. I like using all-purpose flour, but you can substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat or white whole wheat flour.
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