Recipe of Perfect Carrot cake

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:

1. Prepare Cake
2. Make ready 260 g self-raising flour
3. Get 1 tbsp baking powder
4. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
5. Make ready 2 tbsp cinnamon
6. Make ready 1 tbsp ground ginger (you can add another tbsp if you like)
7. Make ready (optional) 1/2 tsp chilli
8. Get 320 g peeled and grated carrots (you can add more if you like)
9. Prepare 130 g dark brown muscovado sugar
10. Make ready 130 g light brown sugar
11. Make ready 100 g chopped pecans
12. Get 4 eggs
13. Prepare 290 ml vegetable oil
14. Get 1 tbsp vanilla extract
15. Take Icing
16. Prepare 75 g butter
17. Prepare 300 g full fat Philadelphia cheese
18. Get 120 g icing sugar
19. Prepare 1 tbsp vanilla extract
20. Take Fresh ginger
21. Get 50 g chopped pecans

Steps to make Carrot cake:

1. Preheat oven to fan 170C. Grease two 9 inch cake tins, and line the base with baking paper.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and chilli until well combined.
3. Whisk oil, sugar, and vanilla until well combined. Then whisk the eggs one at a time.
4. Fold in the dry mix gradually until you get a smooth batter. Then add carrots and pecans and mix well.
5. Divide the batter evenly between the two tins and bake for 40-60 mins (check around the 40 min mark If a skewer comes out clean.
6. Once baked, remove from oven but keep in the cake tins for 5-10 mins. Then transfer to a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
7. For the icing, beat butter until soft. Add Philadelphia and beat again. Sift over the icing sugar and add vanilla and beat until well combined and smooth and then place in the fridge.
8. (optional) for an extra kick, grate some fresh ginger on a kitchen roll, and then wrap it around and squeeze it over the icing. This should give 2-3 tbsp of sharp ginger juice (adjust to taste). Mix again until well combined.
9. Once the cake is cool, spread half of the icing on the first cake then place the other cake on top and spread the rest of the icing. Decorate with chopped pecans.

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