Cooking an unusual carrot cake

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

• Category:

  bakery

• Cooking time:

  1.5 hours

Ingredients

• butter
• baking powder
• carrot
• walnuts
• flour
• cinnamon powder
• salt
• sugar

Carrot cake is a fairly popular pastry; it is loved not only by children, but also by adults. This dessert can be served with tea, and various cakes are also prepared on the basis of the cake, simply smearing the resulting cake with the selected cream.

There are many options for making carrot cake, including nuts, pumpkin, oranges and flavorings. Here will be described the best recipes with photos, according to which the hostess can cook carrot pie in the oven.

Carrot cake without eggs

This is a lean photo step-by-step recipe for making a delicious carrot pie in the oven. To add flavor to the dish, cinnamon powder is added to the dough.

Required Ingredients:

• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
• baking powder - 20 grams;
• grated carrots - 1, 5 cups;
• walnuts - 150 grams;
• flour of 1 grade - 1 glass;
• cinnamon powder - 5 grams;
• table salt - a pinch;
• granulated sugar - 150 grams.

Cooking steps:

Grated carrots are mixed in a bowl with granulated sugar. Vegetable oil and flour with baking powder are also poured there

From the resulting mass, carefully knead the dough, then put cinnamon powder and chopped nuts there

• A baking container is taken, baking paper is placed in it, which is greased with oil.
• The dough is poured into the mold, after which it is well distributed in the form. Dessert is baked for about half an hour, the temperature is set to 190 degrees.

Carrot cake with oranges

This is one of the brightest desserts that can be served on a holiday. Carrot pie with the addition of oranges turns out to be very tasty and aromatic.

Required components:

• butter - 100 grams;
• large carrots - 1 piece;
• lemon zest - 5 grams;
• granulated sugar - 300 g;
• chicken eggs - 4 pieces;
• large orange - 3 pieces;
• fat sour cream - 100 grams;
• raisins - 50 grams;
• baking powder - 10 grams;
• flour of the 1st grade - 2 cups;
• cognac - 50 ml;
• dried nutmeg and ginger - 2 grams each;
• white pepper and ground star anise - 2 grams each.

Cooking steps:

1. Take raisins, put them in a bowl and pour cognac for half an hour. If the pie is prepared for children, its cognac is replaced with pomegranate juice.
2. Rub the lemon zest with a fine grater. Carrots should be chopped with a blender to get a smoother puree. Next, the vegetable is squeezed out of the juice.
3. Two oranges should be cut into thin circles, their thickness should not be more than three millimeters. The juice is simply squeezed out of the third orange.
4. Put butter in a frying pan and heat, send a couple of tablespoons of granulated sugar there and pour in the juice from an orange. Immediately put orange circles in the pan and stew the composition for about ten minutes under the lid.
5. To prepare the dough, put the sour cream in a bowl, put the second part of butter there, add chopped zest and all the spices. Further, granulated sugar and baking powder are added to the composition.
6. Next, flour is poured into the dough, prepared carrots and raisins are added. All components are mixed until a homogeneous dough is obtained.
7. Baking paper is put in the form, orange circles are laid out on the sides. Pour the dough into a container and put the rest of the oranges on top.

Bake the cake for one hour.

Carrot cake with added cinnamon

A pie with the addition of carrots is not only tasty, but also very healthy. Add some cinnamon to add flavor. Other types of spices can also be used as additives.

Required products:

• granulated sugar - 150 grams;
• powdered sugar - 20 grams;
• vegetable fat - 12 cups;
• flour of 1 grade - 1 glass;
• baking powder - 10 grams;
• chicken egg - 2 pieces;
• ground cinnamon - 5 grams;
• grated carrots - 1 glass;
• large raisins - 50 grams.

Cooking steps:

1. The oven is preheated to a temperature of 190 degrees. Carrots can be grated or mashed with a blender.
2. In a separate container, mix granulated sugar with chicken eggs, beat everything lightly until fluffy. Send chopped carrots to the eggs and mix everything with a spatula.
3. Put all the dry ingredients in another bowl and mix together, not forgetting about the cinnamon powder.
4. The liquid components with carrots are transferred to the dry components and the smooth dough is kneaded.
5. Next, vegetable fat is added to the mass and prepared raisins are added.
6. A baking dish is taken, its bottom and walls are lightly greased with butter.
7. Transfer the dough into the container and place the mold in the oven. The dessert is baked for forty-five minutes; an even crust should form on the surface.

Such a step-by-step carrot cake with a photo is taken out of the oven and allowed to stand to cool. Before serving, guests should sprinkle it with powdered sugar.

A cake based on such a cake will turn out to be very interesting, it is enough to cut the dessert into cakes, and then soak it with sour cream cream.