Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it's fast, it tastes delicious. It's appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something which I've loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:

1. {Prepare of For the sponge:.
2. {Take 250 g of self-raising flour.
3. {Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
4. {Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
5. {Make ready 1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
6. {Make ready 100 g of light brown sugar.
7. {Prepare 150 g of caster sugar.
8. {Take 150 g of vegetable oil.
9. {Prepare 4 of eggs.
10. {Get 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
11. {Take 275 g of grated carrots.
12. {Prepare 230 g of tin of pineapple chunks.
13. {Take 75 g of walnuts, chopped.
14. {Make ready of For the cream cheese frosting:.
15. {Get 200 g of butter, room temperature.
16. {Make ready 200 g of cream cheese, drained.
17. {Get 500 g of icing sugar.
18. {Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
19. {Get of Zest of 1 orange.
20. {Get of Walnuts for decorating.

Instructions to make Carrot Cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Grease and line 3 8 inch cake tins, I use Trex to grease my tins..
2. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon to a large bowl. Whisk together the sugars, oil, eggs, in a separate large bowl, make sure everything is well combined. Add the flour mix to the wet ingredients and combine well..
3. Drain the pineapple, then blitz in a food processor, drain the pineapple again..
4. Fold in the pineapple, carrots, and walnuts to the cake mix. Equally, divide the mixture between the cake pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes. Cool the cakes in the tins for 5-10 minutes, then turn out and allow to cool completely..
5. Meanwhile make the cream cheese frosting. Beat the butter and cream cheese together, once combined stop, do not overbeat (I use a stand mixer but you could use a hand mixer or make it by hand)..
6. Sift the icing sugar and add half to the butter mix along with the vanilla paste and orange zest, beat until combined, then add the second half of the icing sugar..
7. Add a little frosting to your cake board, attach you first layer of cake, cover with a layer of frosting, then another round of cake and continue until you have stacked all three cakes. You can then choose to cover the whole cake in frosting or just the top and decorate the top with walnut halves..

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