Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Carrot cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Carrot cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Get 175 g plain flour
- Take 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Make ready 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Get 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Take 150 ml vegetable oil
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Make ready 200 g grated carrots
- Make ready 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Make ready For the filling:
- Get 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Get For the ganache:
- Take 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Take 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
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Steps to make Carrot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Butter and line with parchment a 20cm round tin. Grate the carrots – to get 200g you need to grate about 3 medium sized ones. Mix the flour with baking powder and the spices and put aside. Mix the sugar with the oil in a bowl of a standing mixer (or use a hand mixer), then beat in the eggs. Add the grated carrots, the raisins, sieve in the flour and spice mix and fold it all in with a spatula. Pour into the tin and bake for about 50 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool the cake in the tin.
- When completely cold, slice it across in two layers with a large bread knife. Spread apricot jam over the bottom half in a generous layer. Cover with the top half.
- Prepare the ganache: break up the chocolate into pieces as small as possible. Put the cream in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Immediately add the chocolate and leave to stand (in the microwave) for a minute or two. Whisk together into smooth ganache.
- Using a spoon, drizzle over the top of the cake, letting the ganache dribble over the sides as well. Serve with cream! clotted cream! custard! whipped cream! warm vanilla sauce! caramel sauce! And it’s lovely on its own, too.
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