Recipe of Favorite Ultimate carrot cake

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ultimate 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.

Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:

1. Prepare 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
2. Make ready 230 g self-raising flour
3. Take 1 tsp baking powder
4. Get 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice
6. Get 1/2 tsp ground ginger
7. Take 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
8. Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
9. Prepare 100 g walnuts chopped
10. Take 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
11. Take 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
12. Prepare for the icing:
13. Take 50 g butter, softened
14. Prepare 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
15. Take 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
16. Prepare Finely grated zest of 1 orange
17. Prepare For the orange peel glaze:
18. Take 2 oranges
19. Get 200 ml water
20. Get 200 g caster sugar

Instructions to make Ultimate carrot cake:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

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