Janes Carrot Cake Food

CARROT CAKE TRAYBAKE!

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan and Grease & line a large tin - I used a 9x13" Traybake/Roasting tin.
• Pour the Sunflower Oil & Eggs into a large bowl and add the sugar - mix lightly and combine.
• Add the Grated Carrots, Rasins, and Orange Zest and fold through to combine.
• Add the Flour, Bicarbonate, Mixed Spice, Ginger, & Cinnamon and mix again - try not to over mix!
• Pour the mixture into the tin, and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes. Sometimes it can take a little longer so test with a skewer!
• Once baked, leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, and then cool on a wire rack.
• With a stand mixer/electric whisk, beat the room temperature/softened Butter for a couple of minutes so its really smooth.
• Fold through the the Cream Cheese so its combined, or beat on a low speed. Stir in the Vanilla extract.
• Gradually add in the Icing Sugar and mixed spice till its all combined - try not to beat too hard, you'll want to do this bit by hand. I add usually about 500g, you want to add enough for it to be firm.
• Once the cake is fully cooled, slather the frosting on top. Smooth it over, and sprinkle on some chopped nuts (I used walnuts and pecans) and then give it a sprinkle of icing sugar!

CARROT LOAF CAKE!

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan and grease and line your 2lb Loaf Tin!
• Pour the sunflower oil & eggs into a large bowl and add the sugar - mix lightly and combine.
• Add the grated carrots, raisins/nuts, and orange zest and fold through to combine.
• Add the flour, bicarbonate, mixed spice, ginger, cinnamon & nutmeg and mix again - try not to over mix!
• Pour the mixture into the tin, and bake in the oven for 55-60 minutes. Sometimes it can take a little longer so test with a skewer!
• Once baked, leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, and then cool on a wire rack. If your cake doesn't come out, it may not have finished baking, or you didn't line the tin well enough!
• Beat your butter on its own for a few minutes to loosen it.
• Add in the icing sugar, and beat again - I beat this for about 5 minutes, to make it really smooth.
• Make sure your cream cheese doesn't have any excess water - I find it best to add it to a bowl first just to make sure.
• Add in the cream cheese, and vanilla and beat. At first, it may look a little weird, but just keep on beating. I end up beating it for a few minutes - it can go through a lumpy stage first, but eventually, the lumps beat out and it's smooth and thick!
• Once beaten - it should be lovely and thick.
• Slather your cream cheese frosting over the top of the cake!
• Decorate with chopped nuts, carrot decorations or whatever!!
• Enjoy!

CARROT CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• For the cake:
• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Fold dry ingredients into wet mixture and blend well. Fold in carrots and chopped nuts until well blended. Distribute batter evenly into 3 (9-inch) cake layer pans, which have been generously greased. There will be approximately 1 pound 5 ounces of batter per pan. Place in preheated oven and bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Cool layers in pans, for approximately 1 hour. Store layers in pans, inverted, in closed cupboard to prevent drying. Layers must be a minimum of 1 day old.
• To remove layers from baking pan, turn upside down, tap edge of pan on a hard surface. Center a 9-inch cake circle on top of revolving cake stand. Remove paper from bottom of layer cake.
• For the frosting:
• In a suitable bowl of large mixer, place powdered sugar, cream cheese, vanilla, and margarine. Beat at second speed until thoroughly blended. Hold refrigerated and use as needed.
• For the assembly:
• Place first layer, bottom side down, at center of cake stand. With a spatula, evenly spread approximately 3 1/2 ounces of frosting on the layer. Center second layer on top of first layer with topside down. Again with a spatula, evenly spread approximately 3 1/2 ounces of frosting on the layer. Center third layer on top of second layer with topside down. Using both hands, press firmly but gently, all layers together to get one firm cake. With spatula, spread remainder of frosting to cover top and sides of cake. Refrigerated until needed. Display on counter or cake stand with a plastic cover.

OLD-FASHIONED CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the eggs, sugar and oil. Combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg; beat into egg mixture. Stir in carrots., Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in another large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Add enough milk to achieve desired spreading consistency. Reserve 1/2 cup frosting for decorating if desired. If desired, stir walnuts into remaining frosting. , Spread frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake. If decorating the cake, tint 1/4 cup reserved frosting orange and 1/4 cup green. Cut a small hole in the corner of pastry or plastic bag; insert #7 round pastry tip. Fill the bag with orange frosting. Pipe twelve carrots on top of cake, so each slice will have a carrot. Using #67 leaf pastry tip and the green frosting, pipe a leaf at the top of each carrot. , Store cake in the refrigerator.

JANIE'S CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Beat 2/3 cup butter with sugar thoroughly. Add eggs, one at at time until fluffy. Combine flour, salt cinnamon and baking powder in small bowl.
• Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk to the creamed mixture.
• Stir in the carrotts & 1/2 cup nuts by hand.
• Spread evenly in greased 9 " round cake pan.
• Bake at 350 40 - 45 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes clean.
• Cool in pan on rack for 15 minutes.
• Remove from pan and cool on rack completely.
• Combine the remaining butter, cream cheese, vanilla & powdered sugar for frosting.
• Frost the cooled layer.
• Combine the ground nuts with the brown sugar.
• Sprinkle over frosting.
• Keep chilled.

WHY-I-JOINED-ZAAR CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
• Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; make a well in the center and add sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla. Mix with wooden spoon until smooth.
• Stir in carrots, coconut, walnuts and pineapple. Pour into 9x13 inch pan and bake for about 45 minutes. Don't panic, the centre will sink a little.
• Allow to cool; when cool, ice the cake. You can certainly use your favourite cream cheese frosting to ice this cake, but the one I've included is highly recommended (I usually leave the cake in the 13x9 pan and just ice the top).
• To make the frosting: Cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth; add the icing sugar and beat until creamy.

CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Oil and line the base and sides of an 18cm square cake tin with baking parchment.
• Tip the sugar, sunflower oil and eggs into a big mixing bowl. Lightly mix with a wooden spoon. Stir in the carrots, raisins and orange zest.
• Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and nutmeg into the bowl. Mix everything together, the mixture will be soft and almost runny.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40-45 mins or until it feels firm and springy when you press it in the centre.
• Cool in the tin for 5 mins, then turn it out, peel off the paper and cool on a wire rack. (You can freeze the cake at this point if you want to serve it at a later date.)
• Beat the icing sugar and orange juice in a small bowl until smooth - you want the icing about as runny as single cream. Put the cake on a serving plate and boldly drizzle the icing back and forth in diagonal lines over the top, letting it drip down the sides.

JANE'S CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease and flour 9x13 pan.
• Combine sugar, eggs, oil ,and vanilla in bowl.
• Blend using a spoon.
• Stir in dry ingregients.
• Mix well.
• Add carrots, pineapple,coconut and nuts.
• Pour into pan Bake until center comes out clean, around 50 minutes.
• Ice if desired.