Ultimate carrot cake. Delia's The Ultimate Carrot Cake recipe. Well, it has to be said. There have been many versions over the years, but this is the ultimate and it's great for a birthday or any other celebration.

If you're baking our Ultimate Carrot Cake for a special occasion or holiday, like Easter Sunday, you may also want to put in the time to master Candied Carrot Curls. This carrot cake is one of our all-time favorites. Made with grated carrots, pieces of Granny Smith apple, and sweetened coconut, the resulting cake layers. You can have Ultimate carrot cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ultimate carrot cake

You need 155 ml of sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing.
It's 230 g of self-raising flour.
Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
It's 1 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
It's 1/2 tsp of mixed spice.
It's 1/2 tsp of ground ginger.
You need 230 g of light brown muscovado sugar.
It's of Finely grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin, plus strips to decorate.
Prepare 100 g of walnuts chopped.
It's 300 g of carrots, coarsely grated.
It's 3 of medium free-range eggs, beaten.
It's of for the icing:.
You need 50 g of butter, softened.
You need 200 g of full-fat cream cheese, we recommend Philadelphia.
You need 100 g of icing sugar, plus extra to dust.
Prepare of Finely grated zest of 1 orange.
You need of For the orange peel glaze:.
You need 2 of oranges.
It's 200 ml of water.
Prepare 200 g of caster sugar.

Ultimate Carrot Cake: This is a moistened very flavorful carrot cake, with a creamy lemon frosting, this carrot cake recipe is perfect classic favorite for a crowd and you might not have any leftovers to bring. There's a reason I've called this the The Ultimate Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting: it's extra moist and tender and flavored with the perfect blend of spices. Walnut oil gives this cake's flavor special depth, and toasted walnut oil gives the very best result. Tender carrot cake full of cozy spices & topped with sweet cream cheese frosting.

Ultimate carrot cake instructions

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Grease an 18cm loose-bottomed round cake tin and line the base with baking paper. Sift the flour, baking powder and spices into a large bowl. Add the sugar, zest, pecans and grated carrots, then stir until well combined. Stir in the beaten eggs and oil, then mix well..
Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack, leave in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and leave to cool completely before icing..
For the icing, beat the butter in a large bowl with a hand mixer until really soft. Add the cream cheese and beat again until well mixed. Sift over the icing sugar, add the orange zest, then beat until smooth. Store, covered, in the fridge until needed..
For the orange peel, carefully pare the zest from the orange (a tool like this would be helpful). Put the water and sugar in a saucepan and heat until the sugar has dissolved. Add the orange zest and remove from the heat. Let the zest sit in the sugar syrup until it has completely cooled..
Carefully cut the cake in half (watch our cheat’s how-to video here) then spread half the icing between the cake layers and the other half on top. Decorate with the orange zest strips..

After lots of testing, I finally have the perfect one: this Ultimate Healthy Carrot Cake ! Cakes are welcome on a Southerner's table year-round, but there's something about spring that makes us want to pull out our cake pans and build a layer cake. This Carrot Cake is hands down the best, most amazing, ultimate carrot cake. Yes, I know, I am biased. But here's the thing, I am a pretty by the book person and I give you all the classics.