Carrot and walnut cake. Nigella's carrot cake with ginger and walnuts is a twist on the classic – not too much icing, not too sweet. Just right with a cup of tea. How to make carrot cake from scratch.
It wasn't something either of us grew up eating. Thanks to this easy recipe, we fell in love. A nice carrot and walnut cake with a slight taste of spice due to some spices like cardamom. You can have Carrot and walnut cake using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Carrot and walnut cake
- Prepare of Rice bran oil, to grease.
- You need 1/2 c of brown sugar.
- It’s 3/4 c of rice bran oil.
- Prepare 130 ml of golden syrup.
- Prepare 3 of eggs.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
- It’s 1/2 c of plain flour.
- It’s 1 c of self-raising flour.
- You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- Prepare 350 g of carrots, peeled and grated.
- You need 1/2 c of walnuts, chopped.
- You need of Icing sugar to spinkle.
It's not too sweet and the count of calories is moderate. The Walnut Carrot Cake recipe out of our category Root Vegetable! This carrot cake recipe with cinnamon, walnuts and cream cheese frosting is sure to impress. Mix the carrots and oil together in a bowl and set aside.
Carrot and walnut cake instructions
- Warm oven at 150C fan-forced or 170C. Grease a 20cm round cake pan lightly with oil, and line with non stick baking paper.
- Add the brown sugar, oil, golden syrup, egg and vanilla in a separate bowl. Use a balloon whisk to mox until combined.
- Sift the flours, baking soda, and cinnamon into a large bowl.
- Pour the oil mixture into the dry ingredients. Use a wooden spoon to stir gently until just combined. Stir in the grated carrot and walnut.
- Pour the mixture into mould and bake for 1 hour. Set aside for 5 minutes, before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Spingle with icing and serve.
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