Delicious Carrot Cake - Best Recipes

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  dessert

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

Ingredients

• flour
• sugar
• eggs
• carrot
• vegetable oil
• lemon zest
• lemon juice
• baking powder

Doctors have proven that after heat treatment, carrots are better absorbed by the human body, so a carrot cake will not only be tasty, but also a healthy dessert. We offer recipes with photos step by step that will show you how to make a carrot cake at home.

Simple and fast way

Using this method, you can quickly bake a carrot cake at home, and a step-by-step recipe with a photo will help you not to make mistakes in cooking.

Ingredients:

• flour - 300 g;
• sugar - 200 g;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• vegetable oil - 150 ml;
• carrots - 200 g;
• lemon zest - 1 tablespoon;
• lemon juice - 1 tablespoon;
• baking powder - 2 tsp

Preparation:

Take a deep cup and beat eggs together with sugar in it

Put grated carrots, lemon zest and juice, sunflower oil and mix

Then we sift the flour, put in the baking powder and knead the dough

Cover the special form with parchment and pour out the dough

We bake in the oven for 50 minutes, setting the maximum temperature to 180 degrees

When the cake has cooled, sprinkle it with powdered sugar.

Snow White

Delicate carrot cake with sour cream just melts in your mouth. A detailed recipe with a photo will step by step facilitate the process of cooking at home.

Ingredients for the dough:

• flour - 200 g;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• citric acid - ¼ tsp;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• nutmeg - 1 tsp;
• sugar - 150 g;
• carrots - 250 g;
• sour cream - 200 g;
• vegetable oil - 150 ml.

For glaze:

• cream cheese - 100 g;
• butter - 50 g;
• lemon zest - 1 tsp;
• icing sugar - 200 g.

Preparation:

1. Rub the carrots and combine with sugar.
2. Add soda, spices to the flour and mix.
3. Mix sour cream with sunflower oil separately.
4. Combine all three parts and knead the dough.
5. We bake in an oven until tender, you can check it with a wooden stick.
6. Beat the cream cheese with zest and butter with a mixer, add powdered sugar in parts and continue the process until a homogeneous mass comes out.
7. The cooled cake, coat with snow-white icing.

Fantastic

Unmatched carrot cake! It is easy to make it at home, thanks to the recipe with the photo, even an inexperienced housewife can bake a cake step by step.

Ingredients:

• walnuts - 100 g;
• carrots - 600 g;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• raisins - 100 g;
• vegetable oil - 150 ml;
• sugar - 200 g;
• flour - 200 g;
• cream - 250 ml;
• icing sugar - 100 g;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• baking powder - 5 g;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• nutmeg - ½ tsp;
• orange peel for decoration.

Preparation:

Combine eggs with sugar in a deep cup, add grated carrots, sunflower oil and mix

Put the raisins, previously soaked in boiling water, ground walnuts, flour, the remaining spices and knead the batter

• We bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes, setting the temperature to 190 degrees.
• Cool the cream and whisk it with powdered sugar.

Divide the cooled cake into 2 parts, spread the cake with cream, put the second on top, then coat the cake on all sides

Sprinkle the top with orange zest and send the cake to a cool place for 2 hours to infuse.

Carrot cake with mascarpone

This dish has long been popular in America. Using a recipe with a photo, you can step by step bake a delicious carrot cake at home.

Ingredients for the dough:

• carrots - 300 g;
• hazelnuts - 100 g;
• vegetable oil - 150 ml;
• flour - 200 g;
• sugar - 250 g;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• cinnamon - 5 g;
• baking powder - 1 tsp
• salt to taste.

For the cream:

• cream - 200 ml;
• mascarpone cheese - 200 g;
• sugar - 3 tablespoons;
• vanilla sugar - 2 tsp

Preparation:

1. To get the airy dough, use a food processor, first beat the eggs until they are hard peaks.
2. Then, without turning off the device, pour in sunflower oil in a thin stream, pour sugar.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, salt and baking powder.
4. Knead the batter, put grated carrots and large pieces of nuts in it.
5. Cover the baking sheet with parchment, spread the mass on it and bake until tender.
6. Let's make a cream, for this we whip cream with two types of sugar, and then add mascarpone in portions.
7. Cut the cooled cake into 3 parts, coat each layer with cream, and then the entire surface.
8. Cover the sides with chopped nuts.

The top of the cake can be decorated as you wish.

Carrot orange cake

A slightly unusual recipe for carrot cake is offered by the famous chef Julia Vysotskaya. Using step by step photos, you can make a delicious dessert at home.

Ingredients:

• carrots - 700 g;
• butter - 75 g;
• flour - 150 g;
• orange - 1 pc.;
• eggs - 4 pcs.;
• brown sugar - 170 g;
• cream - 400 ml.

Preparation:

1. Peel the carrots, cut into large pieces and put them in a double boiler for 30 minutes.
2. Mix frozen butter with flour and cut it with a knife so that it turns into crumbs. Then pour 2 tablespoons of water and knead the tight dough.
3. Lubricate a special form with butter, put the dough into it with your hands, pierce it with a fork in several places and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
4. Remove the zest from the orange, then cut it in half and squeeze the juice into a separate bowl.
5. Beat the eggs with sugar using a whisk, then slowly add the cream, continuing the process.
6. Place the carrots in a blender, pour in the orange juice and beat until puree. Combine it with the egg mass, add the zest and mix gently.
7. We take out the form with the dough from the refrigerator and pour the resulting mass, put a few pieces of butter on top.
8. We bake in an oven for 30-35 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Before taking the cake out of the mold, let it cool down a little, then the pieces of butter will sink down and soak the filling.

Andy Chef's Carrot Cake

The addition of pear gives a special zest to this dessert. Pecans are the best choice for nuts, as they go well with any food.

Ingredients:

• flour - 350 g;
• brown sugar - 200 g;
• white sugar - 200 g;
• cinnamon - 1.5 tsp;
• nutmeg - 1 tsp;
• soda - 5 g;
• carrots - 600 g;
• eggs - 4 pcs.;
• vegetable oil - 250 g;
• pear - 1 pc.;
• orange - 3 pcs.;
• nuts - 150 g.

For the cream:

• cream - 300 ml;
• icing sugar - 150 g;
• curd cream - 500 g.

Preparation:

We peel the pear, cut it into small pieces, put it in a saucepan, add 100 g of sugar and put it on fire. Boil for 1 minute, then strain through a colander

Cut off the zest from three oranges and begin to bleach it. To do this, put it in a ladle, fill it with water and boil. Then we drain the water, pour in a new one and repeat the procedure, you need to do this three times

• Cut the zest into strips, pour the juice of 1 orange, add 2 tbsp. sugar, boil for 3 minutes and discard in a colander.
• Grind the nuts, cover them with sugar and put them on the stove, stirring, to achieve their caramelization.

• Mix two types of sugar with sunflower oil and beat for 5 minutes. Then we introduce eggs one at a time, it will be more convenient to carry out the process on a food processor.
• Combine all dry ingredients with flour and add portions to the food processor. Then put the grated carrots in parts.

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• Turn off the device, put pear, zest, half, caramelized nuts in the resulting dough and mix.
• We cover two forms for cake layers with parchment, smear with oil and sprinkle with flour. Pour the dough into them and bake until tender.

We wrap the cakes in plastic wrap and send them to a cool place for 10 hours

For the cream, first whip the cream until hard peaks, then add the curd cream, without stopping the process, lastly add the powdered sugar

In the morning we cut the cakes in half, spread the cream between them, and then completely the entire surface

You can decorate the cake as you wish, for example, hot chocolate and the remaining nuts in caramel

Orange miracle

You can bake a carrot cake at home in a slow cooker, and a recipe with a photo will help you step by step.

Ingredients:

• sugar - 200 g;
• egg - 4 pcs.;
• carrots - 300 g;
• vegetable oil - 200 ml;
• cinnamon - ½ tsp;
• nutmeg - ½ tsp;
• baking powder - 10 g;
• flour - 250 g;
• milk - 500 ml;
• cake cream - 1 sachet;
• icing for the cake - 1 bag.

Preparation:

Combine eggs with sugar and spices, beat with a mixer. When a lush hat appears, pour in sunflower oil

Put the grated carrots and mix with a spoon, then add the flour with baking powder and knead the dough

Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil and pour the dough into it, turn on the "Baking" mode and turn on the timer for 60 minutes

Cut the cooled cake into several parts

Pour dry cake cream into milk and beat, add 2 tbsp. Sahara

Grease the cakes with the resulting cream

Now we are preparing the glaze, for this we combine the bag with 15 ml of water and mix

Pour icing on the cake, if desired, you can sprinkle it with nuts

Swiss carrot cake

You can prepare such a carrot-nut dessert in the microwave.

Ingredients for the dough:

• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• hazelnuts - 150 g;
• carrots - 125 g;
• sugar - 130 g;
• flour - 3 tablespoons;
• baking powder - 1 l.;
• a pinch of salt;
• juice and zest of half a lemon.

For the cream:

• sour cream - 300 ml;
• icing sugar - 100 g;
• boiled condensed milk - 2 tablespoons;
• vanillin.

Preparation:

1. Beat the eggs with the addition of salt, then add sugar in three stages.
2. Now put the grated carrots, crushed nuts, flour, baking powder, as well as lemon juice and zest, knead the batter.
3. Lubricate the container with oil, pour out the dough.
4. We bake in the microwave for 8 minutes, setting the power to 600 watts.
5. For the cream, first whisk the sour cream, then add the rest of the ingredients.
6. Cut the cake in half, smear the cakes, and then the entire surface.
7. When serving, sprinkle the cake with nuts, you can decorate with hot chocolate.

The proposed recipes will allow you to quickly and inexpensively prepare an appetizing dessert for tea.