Carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting
- Lauren-Nicole
- Jul 1, 2013
- 4 min read
I used to have a carrot cake recipe that I would use to woo people with. It was delicious & perfect, and completely stolen from Ottolenghi.... Yes, I confessed to this a few years ago in an older post.
If it had been up to me, I would have gone on for another decade using the same tried & tested recipe. Not everything in this life is within my control, however.
You know how they say that good things come from bad situations? I'd like to think my new recipe is one of those good things.
I had a failed attempt where I'd simply tried to convert the old Ottolenghi recipe to gluten-free... my cake literally fell apart. Pieces. There were pieces of cake just sliding off & landing in a pile of crumbs. Disaster doesn't even begin to cut it. Once I scrapped the conversion of his recipe & decided to start afresh with my own, things started to come together nicely.
Pleased doesn't even begin to explain just how thrilled I am with the results. So that's the moral of this little story... a change in circumstance led me to write my very own carrot cake recipe & branch away from the theft of someone else's. I guess I became a better person for it.
Make it. Love it. Thank me later.
Ingredients, cake: - 5 egg whites - 1/4 tsp salt - 125g sugar -------------------- - 5 egg yolks - 225g sugar -------------------- - 200g olive oil - 100g walnuts, finely chopped - 70g desiccated coconut - 250g carrot, finely grated -------------------- - 100g GF all purpose white flour - 100g buckwheat flour - 1 tsp baking powder - 1 tsp soda bicarbonate - 2 tsp cinnamon - 1/2 tsp ground cove - 3/4 tsp xanthan gum
Directions, cake: 1. pre-heat oven to 175C. Grease & line two 20cm spring-form cake tins with parchment. 2. combine the egg whites, salt & sugar in a bowl & beat until you have stiff peaks. Set aside. 3. in another bowl, combine the egg yolks & sugar. Beat for about 5 minutes until the yolks have gone creamy & almost white in colour. 4. add the oil to the egg yolks & beat until you have a runny mayo-like consistency. Once this has been achieved, add in the walnuts, coconut & carrot & beat until it has all been blended. 5. add in the dry ingredients to the yolks as well as half of the egg white mixture. Fold until it has been incorporated. Add in the last half of the egg whites & fold them into the mixture. 6. divide the mix evenly between your two tins & bake for 50 to 1h&10 minutes. The cake is done when a toothpick can be inserted into the middle & comes out clean.
Ingredients, icing: - 100g icing sugar - 140g unsalted butter, room temp - 300g cream cheese - /14 tsp vanilla
Directions, icing: 1. cream together the butter until white, & set aside. 2. briefly beat the cream cheese & vanilla together. This only needs a second or two. 3. fold together the cream cheese & butter mixture until evenly blended. 4. once the cakes have cooled completely, spread half of the icing on top of the first cake, add the second layer on top & spread the rest of the icing on top. Decorate with more walnuts if desired.
By the way...
If you're interested in the type of stuff I keep stocked in my kitchen or the equipment that I use regularly... here's a pretty comprehensive list.
Tools/ Equipment/ Machinery/ Ingredients:
Machinery:
Electric Scale - Etekcity - http://amzn.to/2xkKpQk
Hand Mixer - Kenwood - http://amzn.to/2xkjowh
Stand Mixer - Kenwood - http://amzn.to/2yqXPiH
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Tools:
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Chef's Knife 8" - Miyabi - http://amzn.to/2fUtyRK
Pots & Pans:
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Cast Iron Grill Skillet 10.5" - Lodge - http://amzn.to/2z2GPwi
Cake tins & Pie Plates:
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Springform cake tin 22cm (9”) - Farberware - http://amzn.to/2xkdQ4T
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Decorating Equipment:
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Ingredients:
Active Dry Yeast - Bob's Red Mill - http://amzn.to/2gcC2R4
Almond Flour - Bob's Red Mill - http://amzn.to/2xkP3xI
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