Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:
  1. Prepare For the sponge:
  2. Prepare 250 g self-raising flour
  3. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  4. Take 1 pinch salt
  5. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  6. Make ready 100 g light brown sugar
  7. Prepare 150 g caster sugar
  8. Take 150 g vegetable oil
  9. Take 4 eggs
  10. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
  11. Make ready 275 g grated carrots
  12. Get 230 g tin of pineapple chunks
  13. Prepare 75 g walnuts, chopped
  14. Make ready For the cream cheese frosting:
  15. Take 200 g butter, room temperature
  16. Make ready 200 g cream cheese, drained
  17. Prepare 500 g icing sugar
  18. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
  19. Take Zest of 1 orange
  20. Take Walnuts for decorating
Steps to make Carrot Cake:
  1. Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Grease and line 3 8 inch cake tins, I use Trex to grease my tins.
  2. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon to a large bowl. Whisk together the sugars, oil, eggs, in a separate large bowl, make sure everything is well combined. Add the flour mix to the wet ingredients and combine well.
  3. Drain the pineapple, then blitz in a food processor, drain the pineapple again.
  4. Fold in the pineapple, carrots, and walnuts to the cake mix. Equally, divide the mixture between the cake pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes. Cool the cakes in the tins for 5-10 minutes, then turn out and allow to cool completely.
  5. Meanwhile make the cream cheese frosting. Beat the butter and cream cheese together, once combined stop, do not overbeat (I use a stand mixer but you could use a hand mixer or make it by hand).
  6. Sift the icing sugar and add half to the butter mix along with the vanilla paste and orange zest, beat until combined, then add the second half of the icing sugar.
  7. Add a little frosting to your cake board, attach you first layer of cake, cover with a layer of frosting, then another round of cake and continue until you have stacked all three cakes. You can then choose to cover the whole cake in frosting or just the top and decorate the top with walnut halves.

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