How to Make Ultimate Carrot cake

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:

1. Prepare 175 g plain flour
2. Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
3. Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon
4. Take 1/2 tsp ground cloves
5. Take 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
6. Take 200 g soft brown or muscovado sugar
7. Make ready 150 ml vegetable oil
8. Prepare 3 eggs
9. Make ready 200 g grated carrots
10. Take 70 g raisins or sultanas
11. Get For the filling:
12. Make ready 4 generous tablespoons of apricot jam, warmed up if very thick
13. Get For the ganache:
14. Get 60 g white cooking chocolate (or any plain white)
15. Prepare 30 g (2 tbsp) double cream

Steps 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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