This is a typical British cake. This is for a cicle tin of around 18cm diameter and at least 5cm high.
Ingredients:
- 110g sunflower oil
- 170g dark brown sugar
- 2 small eggs beaten
- 170g plain flour
- 5g baking powder
- 2g cinnamon
- 2 medium carrots grated
- 42g raisins
- 42 chopped walnuts
- pinch of salt
- a bit of melted butter
- optional: 1 bottle cap of (dark) rum.
Process:
- Pre-heat oven at 170C
- Using the circle tin, use to cut a cicle with baking paper to cover the bottom of the tin.
- Butter the bottom and side of the tin. Put the paper and butter a bit again.
- Dust a bit of flour on the bottom of the tin. Smack it a bit to produce an anti-stick layer.
- Mix oil and sugar in a bowl. Then add the beaten eggs.
- In another bowl, mix carrots, raisins and rum (optional).
- In another bowl, sift (twice!) the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
- And the flour to the wet mix. Whisk until smooth.
- Add carrot mix, mix properly.
- Add walnuts, fold it!
- Pour the mix into the tin and take to the oven.
- Bake for 1h or so. Use a tooth stick to check the cake is baked. It should come out clean.
- Let is cool down in a racket.
Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:
- 150g philadelpia cream cheese (be sure it is consistent! – full fat!)
- 25g icing sugar sifted
- 12g softed butter
- 1/4 tsp of lemon juice
- A couple of drops of vanilla paste.
Process
- Mix cheese and sugar. Whisking
- Add butter. Keep whisking
- Add vanilla
- Add lemon juice.
- It should be a consistent mix. You dont the frosting to melt down once spread on your cake.
Finishing Cake:
- Remove the cake from the tin. It should be cool down enough.
- In a plate, leave the flat part on top so it is easier to put the cream.
- With a palette, create a flat surface with the cream. You can use a pipping bag and a rotating dish to help you with the process.
- Make eight dollops for decoration.
Optional: Marzipan Carrots
Ingredients:
- 50g of marzipan (store bought)
- Orange, blue and yellow colorants.
Process:
- In a small container, mix a couple of drops of yellow and blue colorant to make a green color.
- Take 30g of marzipan and put a couple of drops of orange. Use latex gloves! Mix both until you have a orange ball.
- Do the same with a 15g aprox marzipan portion and green.
- To create small carrots, take a small ball of orange, with the edge of you palm, try to create the body of the carrot.
- With the bland edge of knife make circle of the carrot body.
- With a tooth stick make a hole in the top to add later the green tail.
- Take a tiny ball of green marzipan. Again with the edge of your palms make a small tail, cut 3/4 with the knife to simulate the carrot leaves. With the tooth stick help to introduce the tip into the carrot.
- Repeat with the rest.
- Once you have eight. Put one in each cream dollop from the cake.
