Have you tried baked goods with carrots? If not, then be sure to give it a try. Cupcakes, pies and muffins are delicious and easy to prepare. They will surely appeal not only to those with a sweet tooth, but also to adherents of proper nutrition.
Carrot-banana cake with curd cream
Ingredients:
- 260 g of peeled and finely grated carrots;
- 400 ml flour;
- 300 ml brown or regular sugar;
- 180 ml of vegetable oil;
- 2 medium bananas;
- 4 eggs;
- 1 large handful of chopped walnuts (optional)
- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon;
- 2 pinch of salt and baking powder.
- 100 g of fatty soft cottage cheese;
- 250 g butter;
- 600 ml icing sugar;
- 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
- walnuts and colored mastic for decoration.
Preparation:
1. Combine wheat flour, salt, ground cinnamon, baking powder and granulated sugar. Stir in eggs and butter. Add carrots, nuts and coarsely grated banana.
2. Grease the form with oil and line with parchment. Place 1/2 of the dough in a mold and bake for 20-25 minutes at 175 ° C. Willingness to check with a toothpick. Bake a second cake from the rest of the dough in the same way.
3. Beat the softened butter, cottage cheese, powder and lemon juice for the cream until an airy foamy mass is obtained. Smear the cakes with cream. Decorate the top with cream, chopped nuts and mastic figurines.
Carrot muffins
Ingredients:
- 100 ml finely grated fresh carrots;
- 100 ml chopped walnuts;
- 2 eggs;
- 140 g flour;
- 100 g butter;
- 110 g sugar;
- 3 tbsp. spoons of natural yogurt;
- 1 tsp baking powder;
- a pinch of salt, vanilla.
Preparation:
1. Pass the wheat flour together with the baking powder through a sieve. Beat soft butter with granulated sugar. Add eggs, yogurt, salt, vanilla and beat again. Add the liquid mixture to the flour mass, mix. Combine with carrots and walnuts, mix again.
2. Place paper inserts in muffin cups and fill 3/4 full with dough. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 ° C. Check readiness with a toothpick. Ready-made cupcakes can be decorated with mastic or marzipan figurines.
Carrot Lemon Cupcake
Ingredients:
- 300 g flour;
- 450 g finely grated carrots;
- 300 g brown or regular sugar;
- 300 ml of sunflower oil;
- 5 eggs;
- 16 g baking powder;
- 15 g of soda;
- 2 pinches of salt;
- zest of 2 lemons.
Preparation:
1. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Beat the granulated sugar and butter with a mixer, beat in the eggs one at a time, without ceasing to beat. When the mass increases in volume, gradually add dry ingredients.
2. Then add the grated zest and carrots to the dough. Grease the baking pan with butter using a cooking brush. Put the carrot dough there. Bake for 60 minutes at 180 ° C. Willingness to check with a toothpick.
