Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
Carrot cake with it's compulsory frosting makes a truly delicious dessert. Don't be fooled, the cake does not taste of carrots! Delia's The Ultimate Carrot Cake recipe.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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:
- Prepare 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Make ready 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
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Get 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Take 100 g walnuts chopped
- Take 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Prepare 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Make ready for the icing:
- Get 50 g butter, softened
- Get 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Take 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Take Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Take For the orange peel glaze:
- Make ready 2 oranges
- Take 200 ml water
- Take 200 g caster sugar
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. 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. 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. This Carrot Cake is hands down the best, most amazing, ultimate carrot cake.
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.
Yes, I know, I am biased. But here's the thing, I am a pretty by the book person and I give you all the classics. This carrot cake recipe is a winner and I have had it saved for years. This is hands down The Ultimate Carrot Cake recipe of all time! This is a recipe I have made many times before & one that me and my family absolutely love.
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