Recipe of Perfect Carrot & Coconut Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carrot & coconut cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carrot & Coconut Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Carrot & Coconut Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot & coconut cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot & Coconut Cake:

1. Prepare 250 g plain flour
2. Take 2 teaspoons baking powder
3. Prepare 2 teaspoons bicarb of soda
4. Get 1/2 teaspoon salt
5. Take 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
6. Get 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
7. Make ready 250 g caster sugar
8. Take 4 eggs (medium)
9. Take 1 cup apple sauce
10. Get 1/3 cup vegetable oil
11. Prepare 500 g carrots (grated)
12. Make ready 100 g dessicated coconut
13. Get zest of an orange
14. Get juice of 1 orange
15. Make ready 75 g sultanas
16. Get 50 g walnuts (chopped)
17. Prepare For the ganache
18. Make ready 200 g dark chocolate
19. Prepare 150 g double cream

Steps to make Carrot & Coconut Cake:

1. Pre-heat oven to gas mark 4/180 degrees C/350 degrees F
2. Grease & line a 23cm springform baking tin (square or round)
3. In a large bowl beat the eggs & sugar together until pale and thick. Next, add the oil & apple sauce and mix well.
4. Now add the flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, coconut, orange zest, sultanas & walnuts and mix thoroughly.
5. Add the orange juice and beat through so it’s all well mixed. Finally, add the carrot and fold in well.
6. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and pop into the oven. Bake for an hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Let it rest on the side for 15 minutes and then take out of the tin and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
7. For the ganache, melt the chocolate in a bowl in a microwave. Just do this by blasting it for 30 seconds at a time a stirring until it’s all melted. Add the cream to the chocolate and whisk it until it’s all combined and thick. Cover evenly over the top of the cake, smooth some down the sides if you like too. Leave on the side to set, or even pop into the fridge for 30-45 minutes.
8. Store in the fridge for up to 3 days.

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