Steps to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake.

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It's appreciated by millions every day. Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:

1. {Make ready 175 g of self raising flour.
2. {Prepare 175 ml of sunflower oil.
3. {Make ready 175 g of light brown soft sugar.
4. {Make ready 3 of large eggs, lightly beaten.
5. {Make ready 140 g of grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots).
6. {Prepare 100 g of raisins.
7. {Make ready 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
8. {Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
9. {Take 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg.
10. {Take of For the icing:.
11. {Make ready 110 g of unsalted butter, softened.
12. {Make ready 225 g of full fat cream cheese.
13. {Get 480 g of icing sugar.

Instructions to make Carrot Cake:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Fan 160/Gas 4. Grease & line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper. Put the sugar into a mixing bowl, pour in the oil & add the eggs. Mix together lightly then stir in the carrots & raisins. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda & spices then sift into the bowl. Mix together gently until all the ingredients are incorporated. The mixture should be quite soft & runny..
2. Divide the mixture between the prepared tins & bake for 40-45 minutes. To check insert a skewer or tip of a knife, if it comes out clean it's done. The cake should also feel firm & springy to touch. Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes in their tins then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely..
3. To make the icing beat together the butter & cream cheese then carefully mix in the icing sugar. I mix in about 1/3 at a time as it can get messy! Place one of the cakes on a serving plate & spread with half of the icing. Take the other cake & carefully place it on top then spread over the rest of the icing. Decorate with walnut halves if you wish..

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