Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Carrot cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Make ready plain flour
- Get baking powder
- Make ready cinnamon
- Take ground cloves
- Take grated nutmeg
- Take soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Prepare vegetable oil
- Prepare eggs
- Get grated carrots
- Prepare raisins or sultanas
- Prepare For the filling:
- Make ready generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Take For the ganache:
- Make ready white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Make ready double cream
Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. The origins of carrot cake are disputed. How to make carrot cake from scratch. This cake is quick and easy to make, versatile and utterly delicious.
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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