Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carrot cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Carrot cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carrot cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook carrot cake using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot cake:
- Get 2 cups grated carrots
- Make ready 1 &1/2 cup maida
- Take 1/4 th cup ground almonds
- Prepare 60 gms salted butter
- Prepare 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Get 4 tbsp granular sugar
- Take 1/2 cup lukewarm milk
- Make ready 1/2 tsp vinegar
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- Get 1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
- Prepare 1/8 tsp salt
- Get 1/4 cup milk
- Prepare To garnish:
- Make ready As required Cream cheese frosting
- Prepare As required Almonds
Carrot cake is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter. Most modern carrot cake recipes have a white cream cheese frosting. Sometimes pecans, pineapple, and shredded coconut is added in the mix. The origins of carrot cake are disputed.
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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