Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Ultimate carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
TPCLtd - The Party Cake Ltd While the cakes are cooking make the icing by simply whisking the mascarpone, cinnamon, milk (or orange juice) and sugar in a bowl till smooth and fluffy. Then cover the bowl and chill until needed. It's topped with cream cheese frosting, and decorated with a crown of orange zest.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Get 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Take 230 g self-raising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Take 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Get Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Make ready 100 g walnuts chopped
- Prepare 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Prepare 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Take for the icing:
- Take 50 g butter, softened
- Get 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Take 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Take For the orange peel glaze:
- Make ready 2 oranges
- Take 200 ml water
- Get 200 g caster sugar
Paul Hollywood's ultimate carrot cake For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise. Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work.
Instructions 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.
Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work. Combine the flour, bicarb, salt and cinnamon, then stir into the wet mixture until absorbed. Finally stir in the carrot mixture and the walnuts. Pour evenly into the prepared tins.
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