Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Ultimate carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Get 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Get 230 g self-raising flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Get 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Take Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Prepare 100 g walnuts chopped
- Make ready 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Get 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Prepare for the icing:
- Take 50 g butter, softened
- Take 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Prepare 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Get Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Get For the orange peel glaze:
- Prepare 2 oranges
- Get 200 ml water
- Take 200 g caster sugar
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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