Carrot & Coconut Cake.
You can cook Carrot & Coconut Cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Carrot & Coconut Cake
- You need 250 g of plain flour.
- You need 2 teaspoons of baking powder.
- It's 2 teaspoons of bicarb of soda.
- It's 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
- Prepare 3 teaspoons of ground cinnamon.
- It's 1 teaspoon of ground nutmeg.
- Prepare 250 g of caster sugar.
- It's 4 of eggs (medium).
- It's 1 cup of apple sauce.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of vegetable oil.
- It's 500 g of carrots (grated).
- You need 100 g of dessicated coconut.
- Prepare of zest of an orange.
- Prepare of juice of 1 orange.
- You need 75 g of sultanas.
- Prepare 50 g of walnuts (chopped).
- You need of For the ganache.
- You need 200 g of dark chocolate.
- Prepare 150 g of double cream.
Carrot & Coconut Cake step by step
- Pre-heat oven to gas mark 4/180 degrees C/350 degrees F.
- Grease & line a 23cm springform baking tin (square or round).
- In a large bowl beat the eggs & sugar together until pale and thick. Next, add the oil & apple sauce and mix well..
- Now add the flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, coconut, orange zest, sultanas & walnuts and mix thoroughly..
- Add the orange juice and beat through so it’s all well mixed. Finally, add the carrot and fold in well..
- 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..
- 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..
- Store in the fridge for up to 3 days..
