Carrot cake recipes
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SavageHoutkop
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I have a good one but no time to type it up ATM.
If I remember will bring it in and scan tomorrow. It involves pineapple.
The icing is tricky; it requires 4 cups of icing sugar, and I've never managed to get them all in. Warning not to overbeat as it makes the icing runny doesn't help.
If I remember will bring it in and scan tomorrow. It involves pineapple.
The icing is tricky; it requires 4 cups of icing sugar, and I've never managed to get them all in. Warning not to overbeat as it makes the icing runny doesn't help.
Here you go , help yourself to a virtual piece. I used the recipe Helen recommended, though I don't reckon I've done it justice. The cream cheese filling was a bit overpowering and I put it in when the cake was warm because I was too greedy to wait. Tastes good though.
Funny now I feel too full to eat anymore and the yipper has gone.
Funny now I feel too full to eat anymore and the yipper has gone.
ttcycle said:
my thoughts too last night
A bit late, but in case somebody wants another recipe, here is one I posted some time last year. I've modified it a bit, the original measures are in brackets where different. It's very easy & quick - apart from the cooling time!
T
Courgette & carrot cake (or just carrot cake if you prefer)
- preheat oven to 175C/Gas 4 and line or grease a deep cake tin
- sift
250g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/3 tsp salt (original recipe says 1 tsp
)into a large bowl
- stir in
200g caster sugar (ordinary sugar works fine too; original says 250g)
25g mixed chopped nuts (any will do - original says pine nuts)
25g sultanas
- grate
250g mixed courgette & carrots (or just carrots)
2 bananas (recipe says mashed, grating is quicker)
- mix grated fruit & veg and
3 eggs
with the dry ingredients
- [the recipe says to add 150ml sunflower oil, I found this is not
necessary at all, have reduced it right down to nothing, makes a
MUCH lighter cake, and you can eat more
]- Put in prepared cake tin & bake for up to 1 hour (test with skewer)
- Leave to cool completely in the tin
(I've previously put a double batch into a rectangular oven-width size tray, it bakes a bit faster, and you get many more slices out of it)
Icing:
- In a small pan, heat
40g butter +
2 tblsp water
- when melted, sift in
175g icing sugar
+ (optional) a few drops of vanilla essence
- stir until smooth
- leave to cool for a bit (stirring occasionally) if it's very runny, then
spread over the cake & leave to cool, it goes solid.
dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
But you'd have the key!
HobbesChoice
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- Essex
I read that as "I need locking in" !!! I'd need locking out if there was carrot cake in my house! It wouldn't last long!
SavageHoutkop
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- Location
- South Manchester-ish
my recipe. if you cook it in one large tin it takes forever to cook (hence my note); if you cook in two small loaf tins it's faster.
Crackle said:Looks good. Now which one to try next, yours, Telemarks or XmisterIS's. It'll have to be one, Mrs Crackle made a large dent in mine last night
all of the above (and your current one again), for comparative testing, of course
We'll PM you our addresses, and then you set up a poll ...
T
Crackle said:I'm looking at a blended recipe, nicking the best bits and the common bits from all and I'm looking soon, my carrot cake is diminishingoh, and I doubt it will travel well Tele
Are you sure about that?
Oh well, I'll just have to bake my own carrot cake then... just need to pick a recipe
. The carrots have been purchased 
CC is a very bad influence
T
