chocolate carrot cake

This is my go to chocolate cake recipe. I normally make it in a ring shaped tin and pour the warm icing over the top. The moistness of the cake comes from the carrot and the chocolate icing forms a hard shell. Kids and adults love it!

To make the chocolate carrot construction cake I used 2.5 times the ingredients to make two solid cakes – one 26cm and the other 22cm – baked for 1 hour.

For the dinosaur cake I used three times the ingredients resulting in 2 26cm cakes. Again, bake for 1 hour.

For both birthday cakes the icing was made in my Thermomix using the following recipe (minus the espresso powder) – Perfect Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

decorations

The decorations for the construction cake are mini cat trucks bought from Toys R Us, fun sized snickers, crunchies, maltesers and kit kats.
Decorations for dinosaur cake are melted chocolate, crumbled chocolate chip cookies, fondant icing and plastic dinosaurs.

ingredients

• 3carrots
• 1orange
• 190gsugar
• 180g butter
• 2eggs
• 30ggolden syrup
• 230g self raising flour
• 1/2teaspoonbicarb of soda
• 25gcocoa
• 180gmilk

• 100g butter
• 150gmilk chocolate

directions

cake

1. Grate carrot and orange peel – set aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar together, add eggs and golden syrup and beat until combined.
3. Sift dry ingredients together.
4. Add all ingredients to the butter/egg mixture and stir until combined.
5. Pour into a 26cm ring shaped tin and bake for 50 minutes at 180 degrees celsius

icing

1. In a double boiler melt chocolate and butter together until smooth. Pour over cake or allow to cool and spread evenly onto cake.

Thermomix directions

cake

1. Grate carrots on speed 7 for 5 seconds. Set aside.
2. Peel orange rind and add to TM bowl with sugar. Blend for 5 seconds on speed 7.
3. Add butter to TM bowl with sugar and orange rind. Mix for 10 seconds on speed 7.
4. Add eggs and golden syrup and mix for 5 seconds on speed 7.
5. Add all other ingredients, mix for 10 seconds on speed 5, scrape down bowl and mix for 5 seconds on speed 7.
6. Pour into ring shaped tin and bake for 50 minutes at 180 degrees celsius.

icing

1. Grate chocolate on speed 7 for 5 seconds.
2. Add butter and melt together – 50 degrees, 3 minutes, speed 1. You can either wait for icing to harden and spread on cake, or pour over a cool cake.

create your own theme and send in a pic of your creation!

If your feeling adventurous and create a theme other than construction or dinosaurs we’d love to see the result. Send us a picture!