Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. 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 is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
How to make carrot cake from scratch. This cake is quick and easy to make, versatile and utterly delicious. It wasn't until recently that we realized just how much we love carrot cake.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook 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
- Get 1 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Make ready 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Take 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Take 150 ml vegetable oil
- Get 3 eggs
- Take 200 g grated carrots
- Get 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Prepare For the filling:
- Prepare 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Get For the ganache:
- Make ready 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
- Prepare 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream
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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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