Steps to Make Favorite Carrot cake

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:

1. Prepare plain flour
2. Make ready baking powder
3. Make ready cinnamon
4. Make ready ground cloves
5. Take grated nutmeg
6. Prepare soft brown or muscovado sugar
7. Prepare vegetable oil
8. Take eggs
9. Get grated carrots
10. Take raisins or sultanas
11. Make ready For the filling:
12. Get generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
13. Prepare For the ganache:
14. Prepare white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
15. Take double cream

Instructions to make Carrot cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Butter and line with parchment a 20cm round tin. Grate the carrots – to get 200g you need to grate about 3 medium sized ones. Mix the flour with baking powder and the spices and put aside. Mix the sugar with the oil in a bowl of a standing mixer (or use a hand mixer), then beat in the eggs. Add the grated carrots, the raisins, sieve in the flour and spice mix and fold it all in with a spatula. Pour into the tin and bake for about 50 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool the cake in the tin.
2. When completely cold, slice it across in two layers with a large bread knife. Spread apricot jam over the bottom half in a generous layer. Cover with the top half.
3. Prepare the ganache: break up the chocolate into pieces as small as possible. Put the cream in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Immediately add the chocolate and leave to stand (in the microwave) for a minute or two. Whisk together into smooth ganache.
4. Using a spoon, drizzle over the top of the cake, letting the ganache dribble over the sides as well. Serve with cream! clotted cream! custard! whipped cream! warm vanilla sauce! caramel sauce! And it’s lovely on its own, too.

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