Recipe of Homemade Carrot Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:

1. Take For the sponge:
2. Take 250 g self-raising flour
3. Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
4. Get 1 pinch salt
5. Get 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
6. Get 100 g light brown sugar
7. Prepare 150 g caster sugar
8. Take 150 g vegetable oil
9. Make ready 4 eggs
10. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
11. Get 275 g grated carrots
12. Make ready 230 g tin of pineapple chunks
13. Make ready 75 g walnuts, chopped
14. Get For the cream cheese frosting:
15. Get 200 g butter, room temperature
16. Get 200 g cream cheese, drained
17. Prepare 500 g icing sugar
18. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
19. Make ready Zest of 1 orange
20. Get Walnuts for decorating

Instructions 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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