Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
I've tried many carrot cakes, and this is my favorite recipe. I feel like carrot cake is a dessert most people tend to only make around Easter. But honestly, carrot cake is such an incredible dessert and I think it should be enjoyed all year long.
Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have carrot cake using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Prepare 2 cups grated carrots
- Prepare 1 &1/2 cup maida
- Get 1/4 th cup ground almonds
- Make ready 60 gms salted butter
- Prepare 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Make ready 4 tbsp granular sugar
- Get 1/2 cup lukewarm milk
- Get 1/2 tsp vinegar
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- Make ready 1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
- Take 1/8 tsp salt
- Take 1/4 cup milk
- Take To garnish:
- Get As required Cream cheese frosting
- Get As required Almonds
This carrot cake cake sets the standard for carrot cakes everywhere. It's deeply moist and filled with toasted pecans. Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter.
Instructions 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.
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