Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. How to make carrot cake from scratch. This cake is quick and easy to make, versatile and utterly delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
- Take 175 g plain flour
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Prepare 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Make ready 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
- Prepare 150 ml vegetable oil
- Make ready 3 eggs
- Get 200 g grated carrots
- Prepare 70 g raisins or sultanas
- Get For the filling:
- Make ready 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
- Make ready For the ganache:
- Prepare 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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