Step-by-Step Guide to Make Award-winning Carrot Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:

1. Get 175 g self raising flour
2. Take 175 ml sunflower oil
3. Get 175 g light brown soft sugar
4. Prepare 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
5. Get 140 g grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots)
6. Prepare 100 g raisins
7. Prepare 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
8. Make ready 1 tsp ground cinnamon
9. Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
10. Make ready For the icing:
11. Make ready 110 g unsalted butter, softened
12. Take 225 g full fat cream cheese
13. Make ready 480 g icing sugar

Steps to make Carrot Cake:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Fan 160/Gas 4. - Grease & line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper. - Put the sugar into a mixing bowl, pour in the oil & add the eggs. Mix together lightly then stir in the carrots & raisins. - Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda & spices then sift into the bowl. Mix together gently until all the ingredients are incorporated. The mixture should be quite soft & runny.
2. Divide the mixture between the prepared tins & bake for 40-45 minutes. To check insert a skewer or tip of a knife, if it comes out clean it's done. The cake should also feel firm & springy to touch. - Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes in their tins then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
3. To make the icing beat together the butter & cream cheese then carefully mix in the icing sugar. I mix in about 1/3 at a time as it can get messy! - Place one of the cakes on a serving plate & spread with half of the icing. - Take the other cake & carefully place it on top then spread over the rest of the icing. - Decorate with walnut halves if you wish.

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