A significant number of people love pastries with carrots. Bake cakes, muffins, cakes, donuts with its addition in order to achieve a unique velvet microtexture of the dough and at the same time inform the beloved biscuit of elasticity. The baking color is bright orange, and the cake evokes an irresistible attraction to cut another slice. Since cakes and pastries are troublesome to cook, there is a solution - to bake a carrot pie.
Carrot cake
There are people who are confident that baking with vegetables is a bad idea, especially with carrots. But if you try the pie, not knowing that there is a carrot - you won’t guess what it is made of, the delicacy comes out so delicious.
Components:
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 200 grams of carrots;
- 260 grams of flour;
- 250 grams of granulated sugar;
- 150 ml of vegetable oil;
- 100 grams of walnuts;
- 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder;
- 0.5 teaspoon of salt;
- 1.5 teaspoons cinnamon;
- Vanilla to taste.
The cake is decorated with cream, in its recipe the following ingredients:
- 60 grams of butter;
- 250 grams of cottage cheese;
- 230 grams of powdered sugar;
- vanilla to taste.
A simple recipe for carrot cake:
- For baking, take a mold with a diameter of 24 cm. It is lubricated with oil and sprinkled with flour. Prepare everything in advance, and turn on the oven 180 degrees.
- Then the carrots are washed, peeled and rubbed on a fine grater.
- Eggs are broken into a bowl and whipped with a mixer or blender until the foam is stable. Add a spoonful of water, so the mass becomes lush.
- Without stopping beating, granulated sugar is introduced in parts. Stir the mixture for five minutes. Pour in vegetable oil and beat again.
- Pour baking powder, salt and cinnamon. The mass is getting in the way.
- Chopped nuts finely with a knife, having dried them in advance in a skillet.
- After that, carrots and nuts are placed in the dough and everything is thoroughly mixed.
- At the final stage, add flour and knead the dough thoroughly.
- Spread it in a baking dish, put in a preheated oven for 50 minutes.
For gourmets we suggest flavoring the cake with butter cream. The recipe is easy and brilliant. Act as follows:
- The softened butter is whipped with icing sugar. Scrupulously and continuously. Add vanillin.
- Curd cheese is used chilled. Mix it with a sweet oily mixture and beat again until a cream is formed.
- The finished cream is cleaned in the refrigerator.
- The cake is pulled out of the oven, covered with a napkin and allowed to cool. Baked carrot cake is not decorated while it is hot. Since the glaze will melt and absorb. Therefore, they wait for complete cooling and coat with cream.
- Served as a dessert for tea and coffee.
Pie with carrots and caramel
In this carrot pastry, according to gourmet reviews, everyone will love everything without exception. Various spices are added to the dough, carrots are boiled in caramel. To your taste, control the degree of softness of carrots. Bake a cake in any form: heart, oval, silicone, metal, can be in a slow cooker. The dessert is friable and strikingly juicy.
Components:
- 180 grams of sugar;
- 2 chicken eggs + 1 yolk;
- 150 grams of carrots;
- 20 grams of water;
- 165 grams of flour;
- 130 grams of butter;
- 75 grams of milk;
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon;
- 1 teaspoon of ginger;
- 8 grams of baking powder.
Consider a recipe for a delicious carrot cake:
- Beat sugar and chicken eggs in a cup, turning on the mixer at maximum speed. The mixture should become a white resistant foam and increase in volume by 3-4 times. Leave for 10-15 minutes and do other components of the treat.
- Wash carrots, peel and rub on a coarse grater.
- Sugar and water are mixed and the pan is placed on a medium flame.
- In another bowl, dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed: flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder.
- When the syrup in the saucepan becomes a caramel hue, remove it from the stove and add melted butter.
- Thoroughly mix the caramel until smooth, using a whisk.
- Add shabby carrots to the caramel mass and cook for 5 minutes on medium flame, not allowing the mixture to boil.
- Carrots will become soft, and caramel will acquire a bright color and perfect transparency. This means that everything is done correctly and the sugar does not begin to crystallize.
- Dry components are poured into whipped eggs with sugar and thoroughly mixed with a whisk.
- They inject milk and again interfere.
- The dough becomes smooth, lush and uniform.
- Spread the caramel mass with carrot from the pan.
- Knead with a spatula.
- Fill the baking dish with dough.
- Bake in the oven, heated to 150 degrees 40-60 minutes.
- The carrot cake is slightly cooled and removed from the mold.
Lemon Flavored Carrot Pie
The main component of this baking is shabby raw carrots. If you have never tried carrot pastries, then know - this is very appetizing. Carrot is not felt, but gives the cake volume and loose structure. It is getting ready very soon. Ready lemon-carrot cake sprinkled with powdered sugar or pour cream with sour cream.
Components:
- one lemon;
- two carrots;
- 150 ml of vegetable oil;
- 260 grams of wheat flour;
- one cup of granulated sugar;
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- three chicken eggs;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of powdered sugar.
Recipe carrot cake step by step:
- Zest is rubbed from one lemon, and juice is squeezed from the pulp. Need 1 tbsp. a spoon of zest and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of juice.
- The brushed carrots are rubbed through a fine grater. It will take 1 cup of grated carrots.
- Beat the eggs with sugar in a resistant foam with a mixer or blender.
- Spread carrot, lemon zest and juice, sunflower oil in it. Beat.
- Pour flour and baking powder, mix thoroughly.
- The bottom of the baking dish is lined with parchment, the dough is poured.
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven to a temperature of 180 degrees 40-45 minutes.
- The baked goods are cooled, sprinkled with powdered sugar and lemon zest. The cake is ready. Have a nice tea party.
Interesting variations
There are many ways to make carrot cake. There are an abundance of all kinds of methods, and the easiest of them are with apples and with an orange. You can decorate a treat with cream, sprinkle with something bright, make flowers from carrots or fashion edible carrots from mastic.
Apple fantasy
If desired, experiment, reduce the weight of the used carrots in the recipe to 100 grams, and replace it with 100 grams of apples that are peeled and rubbed on a fine grater.
Knead the dough as in the classic simple recipe for carrot cake, but fill the baking dish a little unusual.
Spread the dough into a mold and then thinly cut a half-apple into plates with a vegetable cutter or a pointed knife. Then apple slices nicely squeeze over the entire surface of the pie. So draw any image. Original, beautiful, tasty. Glaze can not be decorated.
Carrot cake with orange
Orange peel will add friability to pastries, and orange juice - a fresh and concentrated flavor.
The recipe is almost the same as in the classic carrot cake recipe. Just need a couple of oranges. The zest is rubbed from them through a fine grater, and the juice is meticulously squeezed out of the pulp. All this is interfered with in the dough along with carrots - and the cake is already coming out not just carrot.
When decorating the dessert, add lemon zest and juice to the icing. After that, the cake acquires an unusual aftertaste.
Carrot cake is a simple and tasty treat, it is baked for breakfast, for gatherings with the whole family on the weekend or for the holiday table. It is very appetizing, tasty and fragrant.