Sweetness, deliciousness, and richness abstract cake from bread but carrot cake is in another dimension. Do you know why? In the middle age Europeans are using carrots instead of sweeteners to make desserts because the sudden shortage of sugar heated up the price index and affordability. Carrots are naturally sweet in flavor, and they were certainly popular, so it makes sense that they would appear in a dessert-like fashion.
Modern carrot cake has several versions from fudgy to foam-like. But basic ingredients are the same for structure making flour, sugar as a sweetening agent, Baking Powder, and soda as a leavening agent, nuts and spices for enhancing flavor, etc. Nuts like walnut and pecans or cashew make carrot cake crazily attractive. My mouth is watering thinking of it.
Moreover, lots of adventurous bakers done experiments with other components like zucchini crystallized ginger, beetroot, etc. combining with carrot. Brown sugar, crushed pineapple, raisin, and coconut could be good pair with carrot and enhance its flavor. Some people like plain slices of carrot cake and some like frosting on it. Cream cheese frosting, yogurt frosting, chocolate ganache, chocolate whip cream, and mousseline cream are the best option for frosting. but for me, I love cream cheesecake instead of all. whatever it’s my personal liking. but you can make frosting according to your taste.
I have tried to make it an easy and versatile cake recipe. Very compatible for a loaf cake, cupcakes, bunt cake, and layered cake.
| Ingredients | Metric Measurement |
| Butter | 400 g |
| Sugar | 500 g |
| Salt | 8 g |
| Eggs | 300 g or 6 PCs |
| Carrot (Grated fresh carrot) | 250 g |
| Cake Flour | 500 g |
| Baking Powder | 15 g |
| Baking Soda | 2 g |
| Cinnamon | 1 Table Spoon |
| Nutmeg | 1 Tea Spoon |
| Milk | 350 ml |
| Cashew Nut/ Walnut (Roasted) | 150 g |
| Orange Zest | Of One Orange |
| Methods | Panning and Baking Instructions |
| 1. Preheat the oven at 180°C or 356°F.
2. Scale all ingredients according to the recipe and ensure all are at room temperature. 3. Beat butter and sugar either using an electronic mixture or by hand until cream and light. Add salt and continue beating.
4. Gradually add eggs one by one and let them be incorporate completely. Do not add eggs before absorption.
5. Scrap down the side as required. 6. Add grated carrot. 7. Make sure all dry ingredients are ready to fold with butter mixture including spices. 8. Mix dry ingredients with one-third and then one-third of milk. Repeat until three times. 9. At the end add nuts and orange zest to the cake mixture or batter.
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Panning: prepare 4 (8”x4”x2.5”) loaf pan or 2 x 9” round pan greased with fat and paper lining.
Deposit: Pour 600 g + – Cake batter each for loaf cake. For round, cake pour 1200 g + – batter.
Bake at: 180°C or 356°F temperature for 35 – 40 minutes.
Cool the cakes on a cooling rack.
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Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
This is a simple cream cheese frosting recipe but delicious.
| Ingredients | Metric Measurement |
| Cream Cheese | 250 g |
| Butter | 125 g |
| Icing Sugar or Confectionary Sugar | 500 g |
| Vanilla Essence | 1 Tsp |
| Methods | |
| 1. Beat softened Cream cheese and butter with the electronic mixture on medium speed until well blended.
2. Add powder sugar and Vanilla extracts continue mixing until smooth and creamy. |
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