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Ginger Carrot Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese & Saffron Frosting

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Carrot cake with Lemon Frosting

This is my first post for 2013, so even belatedly I wish all of you a Happy New Year.

As always I like to start my first post of the year with a sweet recipe, which symbolizes a sweet new year.

This carrot cake is delicious!  The result in a very moist cake without a lucious lemon cream cheese frosting on top which makes the cake irresistible.

writing icing

To decorate the cake, I wanted to make some carrots, so I used green writing icing to make the leaves and red mixed with saffron to get the orange colour to make the carrots.  If you do not want to use saffron, you may mix red and yellow food colour in the icing.

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Ginger Carrot Cake with Lemon & Saffron Frosting, recipe by Ivy

 Ingredients:

  • 125 grams demerera sugar
  • 4 medium eggs
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil
  • 300 grams all purpose flour
  • 2 tbsp corn flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 300 grams carrots (2 cups finely shredded)
  • 50 grams fresh ginger (about 2 tbsp grated)
  • 1 tbsp orange zest
  • ¾ tbsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tbsp mixed spices
  • 100 grams Greek yoghurt
  • 50 grams walnuts chopped

Lemon-Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 1 (200 grams) package cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 30 grams (1heaped tbsp) butter
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp lemon zest
  • 125 grams sifted icing sugar

Saffron Frosting

  • 50 grams icing sugar
  • 1 tbsp orange blossom water
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 0.25 grams Greek saffron with a little red colour (or mix red and yellow food colour) 

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 180o C /350° F.
  2.  Grease a 22 cm / 9 inch round cake pan and line with parchment paper.
  3.  In a large bowl, sift together flour, corn flour, baking powder and baking soda.  Mix in spices and set aside.
  4.  In your mixer bowl, beat eggs with sugar.  Add vegetable oil and yoghurt, shredded carrot, walnuts, orange zest and ginger and mix.
  5. Add flour mixture and mix.
  6. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  7. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
  8. Cool in pan for 10 minutes and remove from pan.

Decoration frosting:

Prepare frosting and set aside.   Add sugar in a bowl and add the orange blossom water and lemon juice, mixing until you have a thick paste.  Add colour and saffron and mix.  Cover with cling film and set aside until ready to use.

Lemon-Cream Cheese Frosting:

In a large bowl place all the ingredients and mix with a hand mixer until smooth.  Cover the cake with frosting.

Decorate and refrigerate for a couple of hours before cutting the cake.

Store cake or any leftovers in the refrigerator.

Carrot Cake

 

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Lee

Friday 8th of March 2013

Hi Carrot cake who doesn't love carrot cake. I certainly do I can devour loads of it during one day. I am lucky that I like exercise otherwise just the site of carrot cake would add pounds.. I don't expect mine will come out looking as good as yours does but hopefully I can get it to taste good uuummmm

Great stuff thanks lee

Juliana

Saturday 2nd of February 2013

Ivy, what a nice carrot cake, I especially like the ginger in it...and it is so cute how you decorated. Have a wonderful weekend!

Jamie

Thursday 31st of January 2013

This cake looks absolutely delicious! The texture looks wonderful - the kind of snack cake I love - and I like that it is a one-layer carrot cake instead of two. And topped with a lemon and saffron frosting sounds divine! Very pretty, too! Happy New Year and hope you are well!

Elena

Thursday 31st of January 2013

Hello,Ivy! Wonderful, so rich and very healthy cake! I use for such cakes a dry pulp which is obtained after the carrot juice extraction .This pulp is so rich in healthy fibers therefore this is a great way to add it to meals. For more moistness and aroma I add an equal quantity of orange juice.

Eftychia

Wednesday 30th of January 2013

Oh Ivy, this cake looks delicious, especially the frosting! My mum says "Hi"!!

Ivy

Wednesday 30th of January 2013

Thank you Efthychia. Please give my regards as well.

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