Carrot cake is an ideal option for those who follow the figure, but love to treat themselves to sweetness. The cake is delicious, delicate, airy. The secret of the relatively low calorie content of the biscuit is that it consists almost half of carrots, although you cannot tell by taste.
It is necessary
- For the test:
- Eggs - 4 pcs.,
- Grated carrots - 300 g,
- Sugar - 2 glasses
- Flour - 2 cups
- Baking powder for dough - 10 g,
- Cocoa powder - 3 tablespoons (can be substituted with grated walnuts)
- For the cream:
- Sour cream - 400 g,
- Lemon - 1 pc.,
- Fat cream - 0.5 l,
- Sugar - 0.75 cups.
- The ingredients are given for 12 servings. 100 g - 259 kcal, B / W / U ratio: 9/24/67
Instructions
Step 1
To prepare the dough, beat the eggs with sugar with a mixer, then add flour, baking powder, grated carrots and mix everything thoroughly. Divide the dough into 4 parts (for 4 layers). The cakes must be baked in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
To improve the taste, you can add cocoa, walnuts, poppy seeds (to your liking) to the cakes, you can alternate (add cocoa to one, and walnuts to the other).
Step 2
To prepare the cream, beat the sour cream, sugar, zest and lemon juice with a mixer with a mixer. The cream will be thin - this is normal.
Whisk the cream separately (add sugar first).
Step 3
Put the cakes in the cake pan, liberally greasing each layer with cream. The top cake and sides are greased with cream. The cake can be decorated with grated chocolate, fruit (to taste), marzipan products. After two hours, the cake can be put in the refrigerator.
Step 4
The cake is also very tasty if you grease the cakes with semolina cream. It is very easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
semolina - 3 tbsp. spoons
milk - 2 glasses
sugar - 1 glass
lemon - 1/2 pc.
butter - 250 g
It is necessary to cook a thick semolina porridge and cool it. Beat the butter with sugar until a fluffy homogeneous mass is formed, then add the lemon zest, beat a little more, then add the cooled semolina and beat again. The cream is ready. It turns out to be very delicate, airy, perfectly keeps its shape. The semolina is not felt in it at all.
