Easiest Way to Make Homemade Carrot cake

Carrot cake.

Hey everyone, it's me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It's easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It's appreciated by millions every day. Carrot cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They're fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carrot cake using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:

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

Steps 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..

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