Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Prepare 175 g plain flour
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Get 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Prepare 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Get 150 ml vegetable oil
- Get 3 eggs
- Prepare 200 g grated carrots
- Make ready 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Make ready For the filling:
- Prepare 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Prepare For the ganache:
- Make ready 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Take 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
Squeeze any lumps of sugar through your fingers, shaking the bowl a few times to bring the lumps to the surface. We like to think the humble carrot cake is something of a teatime classic. Try one of our go-to carrot cake recipes to keep you inspired, including a carrot and parsnip cake with rose frosting, a carrot and cheesecake layer cake and a carrot bundt cake. Yep, consider yourself spoilt for choice!
Instructions 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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