Ultimate carrot cake
Ultimate carrot cake

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
  1. Prepare 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
  2. Prepare 230 g self-raising flour
  3. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  4. Take 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  5. Take 1/2 tsp mixed spice
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  7. Take 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
  8. Take Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
  9. Make ready 100 g walnuts chopped
  10. Get 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
  11. Prepare 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
  12. Get for the icing:
  13. Get 50 g butter, softened
  14. Get 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
  15. Make ready 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
  16. Get Finely grated zest of 1 orange
  17. Make ready For the orange peel glaze:
  18. Prepare 2 oranges
  19. Take 200 ml water
  20. Make ready 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. Look no further for the ultimate carrot cake recipe. This delicious recipe has raisins, walnuts Easter is right around the corner, and It wouldn't be right if I didn't share a recipe for my Ultimate Carrot Cake!

Steps to make Ultimate carrot cake:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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