Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Carrot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Carrot cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Make ready 2 cups grated carrots
- Take 1 &1/2 cup maida
- Prepare 1/4 th cup ground almonds
- Make ready 60 gms salted butter
- Take 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Prepare 4 tbsp granular sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup lukewarm milk
- Get 1/2 tsp vinegar
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- Prepare 1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
- Get 1/8 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/4 cup milk
- Get To garnish:
- Make ready As required Cream cheese frosting
- Make ready As required Almonds
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Steps to make Carrot cake:
- Line the baking tins with butter paper/parchment paper, preheat the oven to 180°c. In a bowl take 1/2 cup milk add vinegar to it & keep it aside for 10 minutes.
- In mixing bowl take butter, brown sugar & regular sugar & beat it well for 30 seconds.
- Grate English carrots & keep them aside, sieve maida with baking powder, baking soda & cinnamon.
- Now add the milk, vinegar mix to butter mixture & give everything a good whisk, then add vanilla extract and mix well.
- Now add ground almonds, sieved maida to the wet ingredients & mix well.
- Finally add grated carrots & mix well, incase the batter is hard, add 1/4th cup milk & make a smooth batter.
- Finally add salt mix well & pour the batter into the lined baking tins & bake the cake in a preheated oven over 180°c for 45-50 minutes
- Check the cake with a toothpick after 45 minutes to see if it's done, if the toothpick comes out clean the cake is baked. Remove it from the oven & cool it on a wire rack for 2-3 hours.
- Spread some cream cheese frosting on the cake & garnish with chopped almonds & carrot Julienne. Serve with tea/coffee.
My version is a nod to to the classic cake of my childhood. My mother used wholemeal flour but I am not going to even try and pretend this is healthy, so I have used plain flour. There are no sultanas (my husband refuses to eat them however attractively disguised. Bake in a half sheet pan. If you have carrot cake marked down as an 'everyday' kind of cake, then take a look at this other stunning recipe - a layered carrot cake - four layers are sandwiched between a chocolate and vanilla marbled cheesecake filling, plus thick layers of cream cheese icing.
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