Ginger Carrot 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. Carrot, walnut and ginger cake absolutely fabulous I can highly recommend this cake. Ginger Carrot cake

You can cook Ginger Carrot cake using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ginger Carrot cake
  1. You need 3 cups of cake/all purpose flour.
  2. Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
  3. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
  4. It’s 1 tbsp of cinnamon powder.
  5. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
  6. It’s 3/4-1 cup of sugar.
  7. You need 5-6 of medium carrots.
  8. It’s 2 tsp of fresh finely grated ginger.
  9. You need 5 of large eggs.
  10. Prepare 150-200 ml of vegetable oil.
  11. You need 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
  12. Prepare 1/2 cup of fresh orange juice.
  13. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
  14. You need Handful of chopped raisins.
  15. You need of Chopped peanuts.

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Ginger Carrot cake step by step

  1. Grate your carrots and ginger and chop the raisins and set aside. Grease and flour your baking pan and preheat oven to 180 degrees.

  2. Mix all dry ingredients apart from sugar in one bowl and whisk to mix them well.

  3. In a separate bowl put in your eggs and properly whisk, add in your sugar and the rest of the wet ingredients and mix well.

  4. Mix in the carrots and ginger to the dry ingredients and add in the wet ingredient mixture and mix well till everything is incorporated.

  5. Dust the raisins with some flour so they don't sink to the bottom and mix them into the cake batter.

  6. Put your cake mixture in the greased baking tin and bake at 180 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until a knife/ toothpick when poked in comes out clean.

  7. Enjoy.

Sprinkle with the ginger and serve at room temperature. The light and fluffy frosting for this luscious layer cake recipe is a mixture of cream cheese and whipping cream. Carrot Ginger Tea Cake with Lime Glaze. Taking a cue from our favorite juice bar combos, this dense, not-too-sweet cake gets loads of moistness from both carrots and carrot. First book was this ginger carrot cake, but the frosting was White Chocolate Frosting from BAKED!