Orange-y Carrot Cake #authormarathon. Add some citrusy zing to traditional carrot cake by adding orange zest and orange juice to the batter before baking. Orange-Carrot Cake with Classic Cream Cheese Frosting. Easy, healthy and amazingly flavored wholewheat carrot cake with an orange'Y' flavor twist! Orange-y Carrot Cake #authormarathon

You can cook Orange-y Carrot Cake #authormarathon using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Orange-y Carrot Cake #authormarathon
  1. Prepare 1 of orange.
  2. It’s 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
  3. It’s 2 cups of flour.
  4. It’s 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder.
  5. Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda.
  6. Prepare 2 teaspoons of cinnamon.
  7. Prepare 2 teaspoons of nutmeg.
  8. It’s 1 teaspoon of salt.
  9. You need 1 1/2 cups of oil.
  10. It’s 4 of eggs.
  11. You need 2 cups of grated carrots.
  12. You need 1/2 cup of chopped nuts.

Top with your favourite cream cheese icing and decorate with. The best Orange Carrot Cakes recipe, this will take over the place of your favorite carrot cake! It's light as air, very tender, and moist. Home › Cakes › Baked Cakes › Orange Carrot Cake.

Orange-y Carrot Cake #authormarathon step by step

  1. Heat the oven to 185 degrees. Wash the orange well, chop off ends. Cut into 8 slices, take out the seeds and core and grind in a food processor. Set aside. (You could also use a mince meat grinder for this step.).

  2. In a mixing bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Add the sugar and mix..

  3. Add orange purée and oil. Mix well..

  4. Beat eggs separately, add and mix well..

  5. Add the carrots and nuts. Fold in well. The batter will be quite runny. Pour into greased pan of your choice. I used 2 nine inch cake pans. Bake for 50 - 60 minutes. Cool completely before icing and decorating. Yum! Enjoy!.

Carrot cake is a cake which consists mixed with batter. The carrot softens in the cooking process and the cake. Carrot cake is a great culinary example of how cooking is a never ending quest to discover the best combinations of ingredients. I bumped up the usual carrot content and added orange zest to both the cake and the frosting to give it more brightness. I used a little less sugar than usual, but not by a lot.