Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Speedy Ultimate carrot cake

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, ultimate carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ultimate carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Ultimate carrot cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Ultimate carrot cake:

1. Prepare 155 ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
2. Make ready 230 g self-raising flour
3. Get 1 tsp baking powder
4. Take 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
5. Get 1/2 tsp mixed spice
6. Take 1/2 tsp ground ginger
7. Prepare 230 g light brown muscovado sugar
8. Take Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate
9. Get 100 g walnuts chopped
10. Prepare 300 g carrots, coarsely grated
11. Make ready 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
12. Get for the icing:
13. Make ready 50 g butter, softened
14. Take 200 g full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia
15. Get 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
16. Make ready Finely grated zest of 1 orange
17. Get For the orange peel glaze:
18. Make ready 2 oranges
19. Take 200 ml water
20. Prepare 200 g caster sugar

Steps to make Ultimate carrot cake:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

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