Recipe: Perfect Orange -Carrot Cake

Orange -Carrot Cake. Juicy bits of mandarin oranges flavor every bite of classic carrot cake. Carrot cake is a great culinary example of how cooking is a never ending quest to discover the best I bumped up the usual carrot content and added orange zest to both the cake and the frosting to give. This healthy version of carrot zucchini cake is amazing!

It's spiced with warm cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Cream cheese frosting with orange zest is slathered. Carrot cake is a classic that everyone loves, especially when you get it just right and it's perfectly moist, light and spongey. You can cook Orange -Carrot Cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Orange -Carrot Cake

1. You need 1.5 cup of maida/ All purpose flour.
2. You need 1/2 cup of castor sugar.
3. You need 1/2 cup of butter at room temperature.
4. You need 1 cup of orange juice.
5. It's 3 of eggs.
6. It's 1/2 cup of grated carrot.
7. You need 1/2 tsp of cinnamon powder.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
9. It's 1/4 tsp of soda bicarbonate.
10. You need 1 tbsp of orange rinds.
11. It's 1 tbsp of orange pulp.

The orange cream cheese frosting is so creamy and zingy, it really goes great on. Peel the carrots, trim and grate. Spread the orange marmalade over the cake base and top. This cake really comes into its own on its second day, when the flavors have mellowed to perfection.

Orange -Carrot Cake instructions

1. Sieve together maida,soda bicarb,baking powder and cinnamon powder.Keep aside..
2. Blend together,butter and sugar.Add orange juice.Add eggs one by one,blend.Add grated carrot and orange pulp also..
3. Add maida mix portion by portion to the butter -egg mixture,fold.Add whole maida and fold.Add orange rinds,fold..
4. Transfer to a greased mould,I've used a silicon mould so there is no need to grease..
5. Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes at 180°c..
6. Take out the cake and cool on a cooling rake.Serve warm..

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