Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Carrot Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Take 160 ml sunflower oil
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Prepare 150 g carrot
- Make ready Zest of an orange
- Get 100 g raisins/sultanas
- Take 175 g light muscovado sugar
- Get 175 g self raising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp Cinammon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Prepare 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Make ready 100 g icing sugar
- Take Orange juice
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Grate the carrot.
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180C. I wait for this step until I've grated the carrot or it reaches temperature too quickly! Line the tin with baking paper.
- Combine the grated carrot with the sugar, orange zest, oil, eggs and raisins in a large bowl.
- Add the flour, bicarb and spices. I always find freshly grated nutmeg gives more flavour.
- Mix all the ingredients together.
- Pour into a 18cm square baking tray and bake for roughly 40-45 minutes. The cake should be springy in the centre and a skewer should come out clean.
- Juice half the orange.
- Combine the orange juice with roughly 100g icing sugar- add gradually! You're looking for a consistency of double cream to drizzle over the cake
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