Carrot cake
Carrot cake

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

My fiance LOVES carrot cake, and yesterday was his birthday so I decided to look for a carrot cake recipe. He was very specific that he wanted pineapple, coconut and lots of nuts in his carrot cake. I made this cake with a few modifications and he LOVES it!

Carrot cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Carrot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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:
  1. Prepare 2 cups grated carrots
  2. Get 1 &1/2 cup maida
  3. Prepare 1/4 th cup ground almonds
  4. Make ready 60 gms salted butter
  5. Get 1/2 cup brown sugar
  6. Prepare 4 tbsp granular sugar
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup lukewarm milk
  8. Prepare 1/2 tsp vinegar
  9. Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
  10. Take 1 tsp baking soda
  11. Take 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  12. Get 1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
  13. Get 1/8 tsp salt
  14. Make ready 1/4 cup milk
  15. Prepare To garnish:
  16. Prepare As required Cream cheese frosting
  17. Make ready As required Almonds

In a mixing bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. I like using all-purpose flour, but you can substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat or white whole wheat flour.

Steps to make Carrot cake:
  1. 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.
  2. In mixing bowl take butter, brown sugar & regular sugar & beat it well for 30 seconds.
  3. Grate English carrots & keep them aside, sieve maida with baking powder, baking soda & cinnamon.
  4. Now add the milk, vinegar mix to butter mixture & give everything a good whisk, then add vanilla extract and mix well.
  5. Now add ground almonds, sieved maida to the wet ingredients & mix well.
  6. Finally add grated carrots & mix well, incase the batter is hard, add 1/4th cup milk & make a smooth batter.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. Spread some cream cheese frosting on the cake & garnish with chopped almonds & carrot Julienne. Serve with tea/coffee.

For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise. Salt, cinnamon, and vanilla extract make the cake taste amazing. Oil keeps the cake nice and moist — any neutral flavored oil will work. While some recipe historians trace the roots of carrot cake back to medieval times, we disagree.

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