Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Welcome to How To Cake It with Yolanda Gampp. Well, it has to be said. This is the ultimate comfort food. This cake is even better if left well wrapped for.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Prepare sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Make ready self-raising flour
- Get baking powder
- Take ground cinnamon
- Make ready mixed spice
- Prepare ground ginger
- Prepare light brown muscovado sugar
- Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Take walnuts chopped
- Prepare carrots, coarsely grated
- Make ready medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Get for the icing:
- Get butter, softened
- Prepare full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Get icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Prepare For the orange peel glaze:
- Make ready oranges
- Take water
- Prepare caster sugar
Key Ingredients For The Cake Recipe. An important key ingredient is the quality of the icing. A lot of the icing used in the cakes today has a high level of sugar and starch. Then finish with a smooth coating of the cream.
Steps 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.
A lot of the icing used in the cakes today has a high level of sugar and starch. Then finish with a smooth coating of the cream. Gradually add flour mixture to the sugar and egg mixture and mix well.
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