I promised a friend to make her husband a cake for his birthday, I asked her what type of cake and she smsed back "carrot" cake.
I dont think I have ever made a carrot cake , so I decided to make a carrot cake as a trial for the family feast tomorrow.
Recipe Moist Carrot Cake
Ingredients
150grams plain flour
190 grams self raising flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
200mls vegetable oil
225grams brown sugar (the soft type is best)
4 eggs
115mls golden syrup
10mls honey
500grams grated carrot
60grams of chopped walnuts
Directions
preheat the oven at 170 degrees. Grease a square 18cm cake tin and place paper across in all directions to ensure that it comes out easily.
combine the flours, spices in a large bowl. In a separate bowl mix together oil, sugar, egg, golden syrup and honey once combined, make a well in the large bowl containing the dry ingredients, add to the well and constantly stir till combined. Once combined add the grated carrots and the chopped walnuts.
Pour the mixture into the tin, smooth and place in middle of oven for about 1.5 hours or till the skewer test tests clean.
leave the cake to cool, then turn onto rack.
Cake Assembly and decoration
once cake has cooled, cut the cake at and angle to create the mountain. Then cut the larger cake in half and fill with cinnamon butter cream. Ganache the cake with white chocolate ganache. Cover in white fondant. Smooth the fondant, add the cake toppers and present.
Cake toppers
Using fondant coloured with good colouring shape the snowman, skier and ski. the ski was a covered paddle pop stick, stocks coloured skewers. Frosty arms were also made of coloured skewers.
Oh and I got my ice-cream machine today .. It's not a sunbeam but a cheapie from "homeart" - I tested it tonight with some strawberry ice-cream in just over an hour we had delicious fresh ice-cream - recipe to come
I dont think I have ever made a carrot cake , so I decided to make a carrot cake as a trial for the family feast tomorrow.
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| Carrot Cake |
Ingredients
150grams plain flour
190 grams self raising flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
200mls vegetable oil
225grams brown sugar (the soft type is best)
4 eggs
115mls golden syrup
10mls honey
500grams grated carrot
60grams of chopped walnuts
Directions
preheat the oven at 170 degrees. Grease a square 18cm cake tin and place paper across in all directions to ensure that it comes out easily.
combine the flours, spices in a large bowl. In a separate bowl mix together oil, sugar, egg, golden syrup and honey once combined, make a well in the large bowl containing the dry ingredients, add to the well and constantly stir till combined. Once combined add the grated carrots and the chopped walnuts.
Pour the mixture into the tin, smooth and place in middle of oven for about 1.5 hours or till the skewer test tests clean.
leave the cake to cool, then turn onto rack.
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| Making the carrot cake into a mountain |
once cake has cooled, cut the cake at and angle to create the mountain. Then cut the larger cake in half and fill with cinnamon butter cream. Ganache the cake with white chocolate ganache. Cover in white fondant. Smooth the fondant, add the cake toppers and present.
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| Skier and Frosty |
Using fondant coloured with good colouring shape the snowman, skier and ski. the ski was a covered paddle pop stick, stocks coloured skewers. Frosty arms were also made of coloured skewers.
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| The "ski" cake |
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| Ski Cake |
Oh and I got my ice-cream machine today .. It's not a sunbeam but a cheapie from "homeart" - I tested it tonight with some strawberry ice-cream in just over an hour we had delicious fresh ice-cream - recipe to come
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