RECIPE (November 2017)
Carrot Cake
alarm
About
2 hours
Ingredients
<Dough>
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Egg2
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Sugar80g
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Cooking oil50g
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Carrots100g
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Low-gluten wheat flour100g
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Baking powder3g
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Cinnamon powder1.5g
<Topping>
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Cream cheese150g
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Sugar15g
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Lemon juice5g
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Pistachioas needed
Directions
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Cut 50g of carrots into fine strips, and grind 50g of carrots.
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Put the eggs and sugar in a bowl and whip until the sugar dissolves.
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Add cooking oil and stir until mixed well.
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Add ground carrots and stir well.
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Add carrot strips and stir.
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Sift in the low-glutenous flour, baking powder, and cinnamon powder and stir lightly with a rubber spatula.
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Pour dough into the cake pan lined with a baking sheet.
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Bake about 35 minutes after preheating oven at 180 degrees Celsius. If you stick a bamboo skewer in the dough and it does not come out with the dough, it’s done. Take out of the oven and let it cool on a metal grid.
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Put cream cheese and sugar in a bowl and knead with a rubber spatula until soft. Add lemon juice and stir until smooth.
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Put the cream cheese on top of the cooled cake and spread with a rubber spatula.
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Arrange chopped pistacchio and you are good to go.
A useful tips
・In step 2, sugar will dissolve easily if you put the bottom of the bowl in a water bath and warm it.
・The dough will be moist by adding ground carrots.
・By adding fine strips of carrots, the final texture will be more interesting.
Recipe from : con-fectionery researcher marimo