Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, carrot & coconut cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carrot & Coconut Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Carrot & Coconut Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot & coconut cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot & Coconut Cake:

1. Get 250 g plain flour
2. Take 2 teaspoons baking powder
3. Take 2 teaspoons bicarb of soda
4. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon salt
5. Take 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
6. Make ready 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
7. Make ready 250 g caster sugar
8. Prepare 4 eggs (medium)
9. Get 1 cup apple sauce
10. Get 1/3 cup vegetable oil
11. Make ready 500 g carrots (grated)
12. Make ready 100 g dessicated coconut
13. Make ready zest of an orange
14. Take juice of 1 orange
15. Get 75 g sultanas
16. Make ready 50 g walnuts (chopped)
17. Prepare For the ganache
18. Take 200 g dark chocolate
19. Prepare 150 g double cream

Steps to make Carrot & Coconut Cake:

1. Pre-heat oven to gas mark 4/180 degrees C/350 degrees F
2. Grease & line a 23cm springform baking tin (square or round)
3. In a large bowl beat the eggs & sugar together until pale and thick. Next, add the oil & apple sauce and mix well.
4. Now add the flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, coconut, orange zest, sultanas & walnuts and mix thoroughly.
5. Add the orange juice and beat through so it’s all well mixed. Finally, add the carrot and fold in well.
6. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and pop into the oven. Bake for an hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Let it rest on the side for 15 minutes and then take out of the tin and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
7. For the ganache, melt the chocolate in a bowl in a microwave. Just do this by blasting it for 30 seconds at a time a stirring until it’s all melted. Add the cream to the chocolate and whisk it until it’s all combined and thick. Cover evenly over the top of the cake, smooth some down the sides if you like too. Leave on the side to set, or even pop into the fridge for 30-45 minutes.
8. Store in the fridge for up to 3 days.

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