[Grasshopper]

Has anybody got a Carrot Cake recipe please. I made one years ago and it was great but I seem to have lost the workings!! :cry:

[Selkie]

I've got a few (we used eat alot of carrot cake) will look them up for you

[Grasshopper]

Cheers, it would be much appreciated Selkie

[Selkie]

CRANKS CARROT CAKE

6oz carrots
2 eggs
4oz brown sugar
3 fl oz oil
4oz wholemeal self raising flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
2oz desiccated coconut
2 oz raisins

icing:
1+1/2 oz butter
3 oz pale brown sugar
grated rind 1/2 orange
1oz chopped walnuts

Grease and line base of 7" square tin
Finely grate carrots
Whisk eggs and sugar together til thick and creamy
Whisk in oil slowly, then add remaining cake ingredients and mix well
Spoon mixture into tin, level the surface
Bake at 190C/375F/Mark 5 for 20-25 mins til firmto the touch
Make icing - beat butter til soft, beat in sugar and orange rind
Cool and spread with icing when cold
Sprinkle with chopped walnuts

[Selkie]

Another version---this one's VEGAN

4oz marge
3oz sugar
4oz grated carrot
rind of 1 orange
8oz self raising flour
1tsp baking powder
2tsp cinnamon

topping --
2oz creamed coconut
juice of 1 orange

preheat oven to mark 4
cream marge, add sugar, stir in carrot and orange rind
fold in flour, baking powder and cinnamon
transfer to a lined 6" tin and bake for 1 hour
remove from tin - cool

melt coconut over low heat, stir in juice and spread over cooled cake

[Selkie]

AND A THIRD ONE!

1 large orange
6oz carrots
5 oz sugar
3 eggs
3tbsp flour
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp mixed spice
5oz ground almonds

icing ---
1oz butter
1+1/2 oz full fat cream cheese
3oz icing sugar

Peel fine strips from 1/2 orange and shred - blanch for 30 sec and drain. Finely grate remaining rind.
Squeeze juice from 1/2 orange
Peel and coarsely grate carrots
Seperate eggs - lightly whisk yolks add sugar and whisk til pale and creamy.
Beat in 1/2 grated rind, stir in grated carrots, sieve in flour and spices
Fold in 1/2 almonds and 1tbsp juice
Whisk egg whites til stiff - fold in 2 tbsp into carrot mixture, then the rest carefully.
Grease and line a 1lb loaf tin, pour mixture in and bake at gas mark 5 for 1 to 1+1/2 hours
Cool

Icing --
beat butter with cheese, icing sugar and remaining rind til smooth and creamy

[Grasshopper]

Thanks for that Selkie. They sound yummy. I'll give it a go at the weekend

[Selkie]

You're welcome Grasshopper

I used make loads of cakes and might start up again, looking through the recipes has made my mouth water

[GrannieAnnie]

This is Jamie Oliver's Carrot Cake with lime mascarpone icing.  My daughter asked me to make it for her when I went down to Kent last year. It was lovely, but would have been nicer if I'd remembered to put the icing sugar in with the mascarpone!!!! lol


Ingredients
Serves 8 to 10

1 1/4 cups unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
2 cups light-brown sugar
5 large eggs, separated
Zest and juice of 1 orange
1 slightly heaped teaspoon baking powder
1 heaped teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of ground cloves
Pinch of ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 cup ground almonds
4 ounces shelled walnuts, chopped, plus more for garnish
1 1/2 cups self-rising flour, sifted
10 ounces carrots, peeled and coarsely grated
Sea salt
4 ounces mascarpone cheese
8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1 scant cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted
Zest and juice of two limes

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-2-inch square baking pan and line with parchment paper. Set aside.
In the bowl of a food processor, pulse together butter and brown sugar until pale and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, pulsing after each addition. Add orange zest and juice; pulse to combine. Add baking powder; pulse to combine. Add cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger; pulse until mixture is well combined.
In a large bowl whisk egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff. Gently fold in almonds, walnuts, flour, and carrots; fold cake mixture into egg white mixture. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cake cool in the pan 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
In a medium bowl, mix together mascarpone, cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, and lime zest and juice. Spread mixture over top of cooled cake and sprinkle with chopped walnuts

[Aunt Sally]

STOP, STOP, STOP !!!!!!!   :cry:

Carrot cake is Aunty's favourite, your making me soooooo hungry.  

[Rob the rake]

STOP, STOP, STOP !!!!!!!   :cry:

Carrot cake is Aunty's favourite, your making me soooooo hungry.  

Fight you for it!

[noshed]

Parsnip cake is nice too

[Selkie]

Parsnip cake is nice too

Do you make it the same as carrot cake?

I'm saving up our hens' eggs so I can make a carrot cake - yum!

[paintedlady]

I was actually looking for tips on storage and found this post on carrot cake instead.  Glad to see the recipes Selkie put in the Grow Your Own Information section (now gone ) are here because they looked wonderful.  I must write them out asap before they disappear

Interested to know about the parnsip cake, I can imagine that will taste yummy .... recipe anyone?

[skelly67]

A recipe my mum gave me recently, I'm not sure where she found it but it's well worth trying!

350g Peeled Grated Parsnip
225g S.R. Flour
1 tsp Salt
350g Caster Sugar
110g Dessicated Coconut
1 tsp Mixed Spice
220ml Sunflower Oil
4 Beaten Eggs


Mix all the ingredients thoroughly,
Pour into a 20cm square tin, lined with baking parchment.
Bake at 190c for 40 - 45 mins until a skewer or sharp knife when inserted comes out clean.  Cool on cooling rack. Dust with icing sugar and enjoy!