Carrot And Pecan Cake
3 hours 35 minutes
The best carrot cake recipe ever! I make this for my family and friends who love it. I made one last week for Father's Day and my husband and sons said it was the best cake I had ever made. Easy to make and easy to decorate and tastes divine. Give it a try and you will love it too.
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Ingredients
Serves: 10
- Cake
- 340g carrots, finely grated
- 60g pecans (smashed with a rolling pin in a plastic bag)
- 110g self raising wholemeal flour
- 110g plain wholemeal flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 225ml vegetable oil
- 170g soft brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- Cream Cheese Icing
- 60g butter, softened
- 2 (280g) packets cream cheese
- 90g icing sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract, or a few drops lemon oil
Directions
Preparation:35min ›
Cook:1hour ›
Extra time:2hours marinating ›
Ready in:3hours35min
- Cake: Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C. Grease two 23cm cake tins and line with baking paper.
- In a bowl place the grated carrots and pecans. In a second bowl sieve in the flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and bicarb soda. In a third bowl whisk together the vegetable oil, sugar, eggs and golden syrup.
- Add the flour mix to the liquids, then whisk again. Fold in bowl of carrots and pecans.
- Divide the mixture evenly between the two prepared cake tins. This helps the mixture cook quicker.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow the cake to cool completely on a cooling rack before icing; about 2 hours.
- Cream Cheese Icing: Soften the butter slightly. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk. If it looks too runny just put it in the fridge, don't be tempted to add more icing sugar as this will actually make it more runny.
- To Decorate: Place the bottom cake layer onto a serving plate. Spread some icing on top and sandwich the two cakes together. Smooth the remaining icing all over the sides and top.
- If you can manage it, use a nozzle and pipe some flowers or swirls on the top. Decorate with chocolate carrots (bought from the supermarket) or make your own carrots from orange and green fondant. Add on a message if you want to (mine was for Father's Day).
