Easy Carrot Cake recipe
This carrot cake recipe is pretty much fool-proof. It makes a beautiful centrepiece at Christmas or at any other time of the year.
Ingredients:
- 300g plain flour
- 200g soft brown sugar
- 200g carrots
- 75g walnuts
- 75g pecan nuts
- 250ml vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- Zest of one lemon
- Zest of one orange
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp. ground mixed spice
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
Method of Prepation:
Roughly chop the walnuts and the pecan nuts. Finely grate the carrots.
Preheat the oven to 150C and line and grease a 20cm square baking tin.
Sift the flour into a large bowl along with the bicarb, baking powder, mixed spice and cinnamon. Stir the sugar into the dry ingredients.
Beat the eggs together with the vegetable oil and the lemon and orange zests.
Stir this wet mixture into the dry ingredients and then fold in the grated carrots and chopped nuts. Once everything is fully together, tip it into the baking tin.
Bake the cake for around one hour and 15 minutes and then check to see if it’s cooked by inserting a skewer into the centre of the cake. If it comes out clean, the cake is cooked. If not, put it in for another 15 minutes.
Either serve warm from the oven or chill the cake and serve it cool.
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Reviews and Comments:
I think that this recipe is very helpful, easy to follow... However I think that there should be more detail and some handy top tips =]
I found this recipe very easy and straightforward to follow, and the results were excellent.
Awesome and so easy. Kids loved it.
I made this cake when my mum came back from america and she loved it!
I made this cake using twice the quantities and my son ate it all in one go. I'll use four times the amount next time we have a coffee morning!
This recipe was great, it would of been nice to have the recipe for the butter icing but thank you anyway.
Very easy recipe to follow - we have made it twice in one week!! Everyone loves it.
Easy to make and loved by everyone who tried it.
This is a wonderfuly tasting recipe for a carrot cake and it's lovely and moist aswell, now I know where to come for recipes!
Brilliant recipe! But even better with sultanas, I threw in 50g of them and they compliment the spices really well. Try also using: ginger, cinnamon and Chinese five spices for a wintery cake (I know it's summer but it taste great!).
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