Not everyone loves carrots, but few will refuse the amazingly tasty carrot cake. Such a dessert will be eaten even by someone who avoids this vegetable and does not tolerate it at all, because no one would guess that it is carrot.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Baking with carrots has been around for a long time, but not all housewives know about it. A special peak of popularity for such carrot products came at the end of the 60s of the last century, when proper and healthy nutrition became fashionable. After all, carrot products are actually considered "healthy" baked goods.
The taste of carrot muffins is simply divine. In order for the product to rise well into the dough, baking soda or soda is most often added along with baking powder. The dough itself can be kneaded in several ways. For example, as for muffins, dry and liquid products are mixed separately, and then combined. Or you can use a regular butter cake like a biscuit. But in any case, if the cake is baked correctly, then it turns out to be slightly moist, juicy, aromatic and well baked.
In addition, this cupcake can be made a real birthday cake. To do this, cut it in half, soak the cakes with syrup, grease with your favorite cream and decorate with something. And you can add all kinds of additives to the dough itself, like nuts, raisins, fruits, etc.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 289 kcal.
- Servings - 1 cupcake
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Orange zest - 1 tablespoon
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Sugar - 4-5 tablespoons or to taste
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Baking soda - 1 tsp without top
- Salt - a pinch
- Vegetable oil - 50 ml
Cooking carrot cake
1. Peel the carrots, wash them under running water and grate them on a coarse grater. Carrots can be used fresh or frozen. Dried is also suitable, but then it will need to be steamed with boiling water first so that it unfolds.
2. Add orange peel, sugar and vegetable oil to the carrot shavings. Stir the food.
3. In another bowl, combine flour, a pinch of salt, baking soda and ground cinnamon. Stir dry ingredients thoroughly.
4. Add flour crumbs to the carrot shavings.
5. Knead food until smooth.
6. Drive the eggs into a clean, dry and dry deep bowl.
7. Beat the eggs with a mixer until an airy, lemon-colored foam forms, which should double in volume.
8. Pour the beaten egg mass into a bowl with dough.
9. Knead the ingredients with a spoon so that the food is well distributed throughout the mass. The consistency of the dough will turn out to be quite runny, but don't let that scare you, it should be so.
10. Grease a baking dish or cover with baking parchment and pour out the dough, which is evenly flattened.
11. Heat the oven to 200 ° C and send the cake to bake for 40 minutes. Cool the finished product without removing it from the mold, so as not to break it. it is very fragile when hot. Decorate the finished product with icing sugar or pour over your favorite icing and serve.
See also the video recipe on how to make a simple carrot cake.
[media =
