{"id":36305,"date":"2017-04-05T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=36305"},"modified":"2017-09-08T06:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T06:55:23","slug":"classic-carrot-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/classic-carrot-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Carrot Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carrot cake is the quintessential autumn cake, full of the flavours and the colours of the season. This version is a real gem \u2013 easy to make, moist and most of all, delicious.<\/p>\n

Serves:<\/strong> 8
\nDifficulty:<\/strong> easy
\nPreparation time:<\/strong> 15 minutes
\nCooking time:<\/strong> 35-40 minutes<\/p>\n

Carrot And Pecan Nut Cake
\n<\/strong>180 g brown sugar
\n1 C (250 ml) oil
\n4 large eggs
\n200 g flour
\n2 tsp (10 ml) baking powder
\n1 tsp (5 ml) bicarbonate of soda
\n1 tsp (5 ml) cinnamon
\n1 tsp (5 ml) ground ginger
\n500 g carrots, grated
\n50 g pecan nuts, chopped
\n80 g sultanas
\n\u00bd C (125 ml) crushed pineapple<\/p>\n

Cream Cheese Icing
\n<\/strong>120 g butter
\n<\/strong>500 g icing sugar
\n<\/strong>1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla essence
\n<\/strong>80 g cream cheese<\/p>\n

Garnish
\n<\/strong>20 g toasted pecan nuts, chopped\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Method<\/h4>\n

Carrot And Pecan Nut Cake
\n<\/strong>Preheat the oven to 180 \u00b0C. Line 3 x 15 cm round cake tins with baking paper and set aside.<\/p>\n

Beat the brown sugar, oil and the eggs together for 5 minutes until fluffy.<\/p>\n

Sift the dry ingredients and add to the brown sugar mixture together with the carrots, nuts, sultanas and pineapple. Mix together and spoon into the 3 cake tins.<\/p>\n

Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean, turning the tins around half way through the cooking time.<\/p>\n

Cream Cheese Icing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Place all of the ingredients into the bowl of a cake mixer and beat until the icing is light and fluffy.<\/p>\n

To Assemble<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spread one of the cake layers with approximately one-third of the icing. Place the second layer on top and spread with approximately one-third of the icing. Spread the top and sides of the cake with the remaining icing. Garnish with chopped toasted pecan nuts.<\/p>\n

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Carrot cake is the quintessential autumn cake, full of the flavours and the colours of the season. This version is a real gem \u2013 easy to make, moist and most of all, delicious. Serves: 8 Difficulty: easy Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 35-40 minutes Carrot And Pecan Nut Cake 180 g brown sugar 1 C (250 ml) oil 4 large eggs 200 g flour 2 tsp (10 ml) baking powder 1 tsp (5 ml) bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4582,4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand-page","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}