Carrot, pecan and clove cake

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CARROT, PECAN AND CLOVE CAKE




Hey everyone! Today I have another fantastic recipe for you, a delicious carrot cake! Hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients you will need to prepare this:

1.    200ml vegetable oil, plus extra for greasing

2.    4 large eggs

3.    1 orange (scrubbed), zest, and juice

4.    265g plain flour

5.    1 tsp baking powder

6.    1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

7.    280g dark brown soft sugar

8.    1/4 tsp ground cloves

9.    1/2 tsp  ground cinnamon

10.    1/2 tsp ground ginger

11.    1/4 tsp of salt

12.    250 carrots grated

13.    100 pecans, chopped

ICING

-    100g slight salted butter, softened

-    100g icing sugar

-    3 tbsp maple syrup

-    pinch ground cloves

-    250g soft cheese


Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 180*C, gas mark 4.  Grease 2 x 20cm loose-based cake tins with oil and line the bases with baking parchment.  In a large bowl, lightly beat together the oil, eggs, and orange zest, and juice.  Sieve in the flour, then adds the baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, sugar, spices, and salt, gently fold through.  stir in the carrots and most of the pecans put some aside to decorate.

2. Pour the mixture into the tins and bake for 25-30 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave the cake to cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

3. Make the icing. Use electric beaters to beat the butter until pale and smooth. Add the icing sugar, maple syrup, cloves, and soft cheese and beat again until combined. Once the cake has cooled, use the icing to sandwich the cake together and also to ice it's top. Decorate with the reserved pecans.

Serve 12, prepare 25 minutes, plus cooling.

Cook for 30 mintes


That's it for this recipe, if you enjoyed it, leave a comment down below! 


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