Gourmet Carrot Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 1
ingredients
- 1 cup self raising flour
- 1 cup plain flour
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 cup oil
- 1 cup lightly packed soft brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup golden syrup
- 2 1⁄2 cups grated carrots
- 1⁄2 cup chopped pecans or 1/2 cup walnuts
- 175 g cream cheese
- 60 g butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 -2 teaspoon lemon juice
directions
- Preheat the oven to 160c. Brush a deep, 23cm round cake tin with melted butter or oil. Line the base and sides with baking paper.
- Sift together the flours, spices, and soda into a large bowl. Make a well in the centre.
- Whisk together the oil, sugar, eggs and syrup in a jug until combined. Gradually stir this mixture into the dry ingredients; stir until smooth.
- Stir in the carrot and nuts. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin; smooth the surface. Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted in the centre.
- Leave the cake in the tin for at least 15 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
- To make the icing: Beat the cream cheese and butter with electric beaters until smooth. Gradually add the icing sugar alternately with the vanilla and juice, beating until light and creamy. Spread the Icing over the cooled cake.
- PLEASE NOTE: The cake can be halved horizontally. Sandwich the layers together with half the icing and spread the remainder on top.
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Hi my names bree, which is short for Brionaigh. Don't ask how to pronounce it cause you will probably never get it! lol. I am 16 years old and living on the Mornington Peninsula Victoria Australia. I'm currently completing year 11 VCE in high school in victoria australia. I have a passion for irish dancing which takes up more of my life than school and home work and i compete in state and national competitions each year. travelling to many different states in Australia is part of Irish Dancing. In my spare time i love to cook with my mum in the kitchen and make anything we can come up with from what we have in our pantry. I also spend alot of my time on the internet chatting with my friends and just avoiding homework. I take foodtech as one of my vce subjects and love to spend a double period in the kitchen with my friends. Hope you enjoy some of my simple recipes that I love to make on a weekly basis.