Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carrot & coconut cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Carrot & Coconut Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Carrot & Coconut Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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

The ingredients needed to make Carrot & Coconut Cake:

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

Instructions 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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