Recipe of Ultimate Carrot cake

Carrot cake.

You can cook Carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Carrot cake

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

Carrot cake step by step

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..