Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Make ready 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Make ready 230 g self-raising flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Get 100 g walnuts chopped
- Get 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Get 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Take for the icing:
- Get 50 g butter, softened
- Take 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Prepare 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Get For the orange peel glaze:
- Get 2 oranges
- Make ready 200 ml water
- Prepare 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. Ultimate Carrot Cake: This is a moistened very flavorful carrot cake, with a creamy lemon frosting, this carrot cake recipe is perfect classic favorite for a crowd and you might not have any leftovers to bring. This Carrot Cake is hands down the best, most amazing, ultimate carrot cake. Yes, I know, I am biased.
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.
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