Carrot Cake Recipe/soft & moist -- Cooking A Dream

 You like carrot or not you will like this carrot cake.It's soft and moist, you don't really taste carrot in it.Orange flavour goes very well with it, this is how I like my carrot cake but you can use vanilla, cinnamon, almond if you like.

Ingredients:
250g all purpose flour (1 3/4cups-pressed)
350g finely grated carrot(2 cups -pressed)
200g sugar(1 cup)
4 eggs
11/2 tsp baking powder
1tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
180ml oil(3/4 cup)
1tbsp orange juice (you can use 1-2tsp vanilla, cinnamon, almond extract instead)
3tbsp orange zest
2tbsp raisin

pan size: 20cm x 6cm (8" x 2")
baking time: 170°C(340°F)  for 90mins(10mins more or less)

Method:

1. coarsely grate carrot in a food possessor 
2. sift flour baking powder and baking soda together
3. in a big bowl beat egg sugar salt orange juice and zest until pale
4. add oil slowly and beat
5. gently fold in flour add 
6. mix carrot
7. pour the batter in a parchment paper lined baking pan
8. sprinkle raisin on top then bake

Notes:
1.Do not over mix the batter
2.keep an eye during baking. if you see the top is burning, place an aluminium foil on top as soon as you get a nice brown colour.
3. baking time could be more or less 10- 15 mins. insert a toothpick in the middle of the cake to check. if it comes out clean it's done. If batter sticks on it bake few more minutes.
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