Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Delia's The Ultimate Carrot Cake recipe. Well, it has to be said. There have been many versions over the years, but this is the ultimate and it's great for a birthday or any other celebration.
Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Ultimate carrot cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- Get 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- Get 230 g self-raising flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
- Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
- Take 100 g walnuts chopped
- Prepare 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
- Get 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- Get for the icing:
- Prepare 50 g butter, softened
- Prepare 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
- Take 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Take Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Get For the orange peel glaze:
- Make ready 2 oranges
- Take 200 ml water
- Make ready 200 g caster sugar
There's a reason I've called this the The Ultimate Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting: it's extra moist and tender and flavored with the perfect blend of spices. This carrot cake recipe is a winner and I have had it saved for years. Tender carrot cake full of cozy spices & topped with sweet cream cheese frosting. After lots of testing, I finally have the perfect one: this Ultimate Healthy Carrot Cake!
Instructions to make Ultimate carrot cake:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
This is hands down The Ultimate Carrot Cake recipe of all time! This is a recipe I have made many times before & one that me and my family absolutely love. This Carrot Cake is hands down the best, most amazing, ultimate carrot cake. Yes, I know, I am biased. But here's the thing, I am a pretty by the book person and I give you all the classics.
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