DessertsThe Carrot Cake Recipe
Here"s a recipe that"s healthy as well as enticing. Carrot cake is delightfully moist and rich in flavour. The combination of pineapples and carrots make the taste all the more better. Try out this recipe once and you"ll find yourself making it again and again. It"s fun to make and quite easy.
What Do You Need?
* Carrots grated - 6 cups
* Raisins - 1 cup
* Pineapple (crushed and drained) - 1 cup
* Eggs - four
* Brown sugar - 1 cup
* White sugar - 1.5 cups
* Edible oil - 1 cup
* Vanilla essence - 2 tsp
* All-purpose flour - 3 cups
* Baking soda - 1.5 tsp
* Salt - 1 tsp
* Powdered cinnamon - 4 tsp
* Walnuts chopped - 1 cup
How To Make Carrot Cake
Mix brown sugar with carrot and let the mixture rest in a bowl for an hour. Add raisins to this mixture. Preheat your oven to 350oF. Take two cake pans, ten inches each; smear them with butter and powder with flour.
Take a big bowl and beat eggs till they are light. Mix in sugar oil and flour slowly. Add the crushed pineapple to this mixture. Blend in the baking soda, salt, flour and cinnamon and stir. To this, add the carrot-raisin mix and walnuts. Spread out this cake mix in your greased pans.
Keep the trays in the oven and bake for 45 mins. When you insert a toothpick into your cake, it should come out clean. This is the consistency you"ll need. Let the cake cool before taking it off the pan.
Now your cake"s ready. Let"s frost it with a lovely cream cheese frosting.
To make Cream Cheese Frosting, you"ll need -
o Butter - Ò¼ cup
o Softened cream cheese - 8 ounces
o Powdered sugar - 1 Pound
o Vanilla essence - 2 teaspoons
How to Make Cream Cheese Frosting
Beat softened butter and cream cheese together till you get a soft creamy mix. Merge in sugar and vanilla extract and spoon out this cream over your carrot cake.
Voila! Your carrot cake"s ready. Taste it and get ready for second servings.
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