Wednesday 12 March 2014

#3 carrot cake


My mommy's recipe:
  • 240g carrots
  • 120g canned pineapples
  • 60g raisins
  • 60g walnuts/ I used an extra 60g raisins instead of nuts because Nicole's allergic to nuts
  • 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
  • 4 eggs
  • 150g brown sugar
  • 180ml corn oil/ canola oil/ I used light olive oil
  • 240g self-raising flour with 1/2 tsp baking powder & 1/2 tsp baking soda/ I used Allinsons Wholemeal Seed & Grain Flour, a teaspoon of baking powder and baking soda each
  • a pinch of salt, which I forgot to add
Beat the eggs and sugar until the mixture gets fluffy, everything else comes next.
Fold in the flour mixture until you get a nice consistency.
Bake for 40 to 45 minutes on 170 °C.

Note: Squeeze the carrot juice out so that it's not too wet. Also, chop your raisins and nuts before adding for nicer bites. 

As for the cream cheese topping, it's a ratio of 1 to 1 of soft cream cheese, and an equal mixture of melted butter and icing sugar. Meaning that if I use 100g of cream cheese, it's 50g of butter and 50g of icing sugar. I thought that we didn't have any icing sugar left in the house so I missed it out in this batch of cream tonight. Was in the cupboard all along! 

That's it for this week's 52. Hope everyone will enjoy this recipe, goodnight folks! 


2 comments:

  1. Currently extremely addicted to carrot cake, and I was looking for recipes online. And then, while browsing my blog, I clicked on your link and read this. HAHAHAHA. <3

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