Preparing a carrot cake is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. A basic biscuit recipe, plus grated carrots and cream, and a culinary masterpiece flaunts on your table in just an hour. How to make a carrot cake read in our article.
English carrot cake with Philadelphia cheese
You can not call this recipe classically English, however, the cake for cheese cake "Philadelphia" - this is an excellent option that helps save a lot of time and effort.
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- self-rising flour - 250 g;
- Ground cinnamon - 2 tsp.
- sugar - 400 g;
- vegetable oil - 350 ml;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- carrots - 350 g;
- nuts - 120 g.
For cream:
- The Philadelphia cheese 225 g;
- margarine - 110 g;
- powdered sugar - 450 g;
- nuts - 120 g;
- vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
In a bowl, we mix pre-sifted flour, cinnamon and sugar. We add vegetable oil and eggs to the dry ingredients, and afterwards we thoroughly beat everything with a blender. Now add crushed nuts and grated carrots. The resulting dough is divided between two 23 cm forms for baking and sent to the oven for 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees.
For cream, mix cream cheese, margarine (or butter) and sugar. We beat everything with a mixer. Add vanilla extract and nuts. Lubricate the cake with cream between the cakes and cover it over. We decorate the cake with pieces of nuts.
If you did not find the cheese "Philadelphia" at hand, then you can cook carrot cake with curd cream . To do this, the cottage cheese should be rubbed and mixed with the rest of the ingredients from the recipe, then beaten with a mixer.
American carrot and ginger cake recipe
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 items;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- powder for baking - 2 teaspoons;
- soda - 1 teaspoon;
- cinnamon - 2 tsp.
- ground ginger - 1/2 tsp;
- vegetable oil - 1¼ tbsp .;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- butter (melted) - 1/4 of a century;
- grated carrots - 2 items;
- pineapple - 1 can;
- pecans - 1/2 st;
- walnuts - 1/2 tbsp.
For cream:
- butter - 1/2 tbsp .;
- cheese "Mascarpone" - 225 g;
- milk - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon;
- powdered sugar - 250 g.
Preparation
Flour sift and mix with cinnamon, soda, powder for baking and ground ginger with the help of a whisk.
In a separate bowl, mix sugar, vegetable oil and eggs. Whisk everything until smooth, then pour in melted butter. Pineapples are cut into small pieces and added to the oily-egg mixture together with carrots, pineapple and nuts. We connect the contents of two bowls and whisk it to homogeneity with a mixer.
Pour the dough into a greased baking dish and send the cake to bake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Before applying the cream, let the cake cool down.
For the cream with a mixer, beat the butter, the Mascarpone cheese, a little milk, sugar and vanilla. Lubricate the cream with a cooled cake and decorate it with the remains of nuts. Before serving, carrot cake with "Mascarpone" should stand in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Carrot cake without baking
In this case, we use a base of coconut oil and nuts for the cream, but if you want to repeat the recipe not in the lean version, then prepare the carrot cake with sour cream , whipping the fatty sour cream with the sugar powder.
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- oat flour - 2 items;
- grated carrots - 2 items;
- salt - 1/4 tsp.
- dates are sliced - 2 items;
- crushed nuts - 1 item;
- vanilla - 1 teaspoon;
- honey - 3 tbsp. spoons.
For cream:
- cashew nuts - 2 items;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- dates - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- coconut oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 1/4 tsp.
Preparation
Grated carrots squeeze from the juice and mix with the rest of the ingredients. From the received mass we form 2 cakes. We spread the creams with cream, for the preparation of which all the presented ingredients must be ground to uniformity with a blender.