One of the family favourite cakes is the carrot cake! The poor carrot cake was ragged and made fun of before entering the oven, but once out, it was off in minutes!
Its easy to make, tasty and goes very well as a post brunch dessert on a Sunday.
The recipe is below for all of you.
All you need -
1 cup castor sugar [sifted]
3/4 cup refined odourless oil
2 eggs whole
1 cup grated carrot [use smallest grate for this]
1-2tsp cinnamon powder
1 cup flour [maida]
3/4 cup coarsely ground almonds or pecan nuts [choice is yours] In India, lets use almonds. Its easily available and tastes just as good.
1 tsp baking powder
Mix & stir -
Whisk together sugar and oil till it is creamy
Then add the eggs one by one and whisk
Add in cinnamon powder and the grated carrots and mix
Add sifted flour little by little and mix.
Finally add the almonds.
Grease a baking tray with refined oil/butter and dust some flour.
Just before pouring the batter add baking powder. Adding baking powder at the end will make a fluffy cake. If you add way in the beginning, you might get a heavy cake.
Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees or 350F for about 1 hour or till the center is baked.
Glaze -
Boil together 1:1 ratio or orange juice [out from fresh orange or a juice carton] and sugar
Once the cake cools, glaze it with this syrup till it seeps into the spongy cake :D Dust with castor sugar...ENJOY!!
Thanks to Rachel Allen for inspiring me.
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