Recipe of Award-winning Carrot cake

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:

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

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Instructions 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.

This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. This truly is the best carrot cake recipe! It's perfectly moist and delicious, made with lots of fresh carrots, and topped with the most heavenly cream cheese frosting.

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