Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
- Prepare 160 ml sunflower oil
- Make ready 3 eggs
- Take 150 g carrot
- Make ready Zest of an orange
- Get 100 g raisins/sultanas
- Take 175 g light muscovado sugar
- Prepare 175 g self raising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp Cinammon
- Take 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Make ready 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Take 100 g icing sugar
- Prepare Orange juice
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
- Grate the carrot.
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180C. I wait for this step until I've grated the carrot or it reaches temperature too quickly! Line the tin with baking paper.
- Combine the grated carrot with the sugar, orange zest, oil, eggs and raisins in a large bowl.
- Add the flour, bicarb and spices. I always find freshly grated nutmeg gives more flavour.
- Mix all the ingredients together.
- Pour into a 18cm square baking tray and bake for roughly 40-45 minutes. The cake should be springy in the centre and a skewer should come out clean.
- Juice half the orange.
- Combine the orange juice with roughly 100g icing sugar- add gradually! You're looking for a consistency of double cream to drizzle over the cake
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