Carrot And Walnut Cake
Get ready to bake a delightful treat with these Carrot Patch Cupcakes. These moist and flavorful carrot cakes are topped with a creamy pistachio frosting and adorned with adorable marzipan carrots, creating a charming garden-inspired dessert. Perfect for any occasion or just a fun weekend baking project, these cupcakes are sure to impress with their whimsical presentation and delicious taste.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 2 free-range eggs
- 200g/7oz light brown sugar
- pinch salt
- 85g/3oz vegetable oil
- 250g/9oz carrots
- 35g/1¼oz walnuts
- 125g/4½ oz strong flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 200g/7oz cream cheese
- 100g/3½oz caster sugar
- 50g/1¾oz pistachio
- few drops green food colouring
- 250g/9oz marzipan
- few drops orange food colouring
- few drops red food colouring
- 20g/¾oz cocoa powder
- 6 tbsp cocoa nibs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and grease six 10x5cm/4x2in disposable rectangular moulds or a six cup muffin tin.
- To make the cake, whisk the eggs, sugar, salt and oil together in a large bowl. Add the carrots, walnuts, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon and fold in to combine.
- Spoon the batter into the moulds or muffin tin and bake for 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the topping. In a bowl combine the cream cheese, sugar and pistachio paste. Add green food colouring, stirring through a drop at a time, until you get an even light-green colour. Set aside until ready to use.
- When cooked, remove the cakes from the oven and set aside to cool. When completely cool, spread the topping over the cakes.
- To decorate, massage the marzipan to soften. Set aside a third of the marzipan. Knead in the orange and a little red food colouring into the remaining marzipan until you have bright-orange âcarrotâ colour. Mould into mini carrots. Knead the green food colouring into the reserved marzipan, mould it into carrots tops and attach them to the orange âcarrotsâ.
- Place them on top of the cake and dust with cocoa powder.
- Along the top of each cake, sprinkle a line of cocoa nibs to look like soil with the green tops of the carrots sticking out.
Cook Time
1H
Prep Time
PT30M
Yield
Makes 6 small cakes
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