For many, the phrase "carrot cake" is perplexing. People don't understand how vegetables can be used to make baked goods. In fact, carrots are an excellent root vegetable for making delicious pies. The main thing is to know proven recipes.
If you decide to experiment and want to cook a delicious carrot cake for your household, then the recipes below will help you make incomparable pastries.
Carrot cake recipe number 1
If you are not yet sure of your culinary skills, and you really want to make a carrot cake, try creating baked goods according to the recipes that will be given below. To prepare the dish you need to take:
- 2 fresh carrots. The amount of root vegetable can vary and will depend on the size of the vegetable. To make carrot pie, you need 1.5 cups of grated vegetable.
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 2 cups of flour;
- 0.5 cups vegetable oil;
- 1 tsp soda;
- Generous from 1 orange;
- 10 dried kumquat berries (easily replaced with dried apricots).
Carrot cake is prepared like this:
- Wash carrots, peel, grate on a fine grater. The required amount of grated vegetables is 1.5 cups.
- Cover the prepared carrots with sugar, mix the ingredients, let the mixture stand for 15 minutes.
- Chop the kumquat as small as possible, place the fruit over the carrots. If instead of an exotic fruit you took dried apricots, then be sure to rinse it and soak it in boiling water for 2-3 minutes. After all the manipulations, you can chop dried apricots.
- In a bowl with carrots, sugar and kumquat (dried apricots), grate the previously washed orange zest. If you don't like the peculiar taste of citrus peels, replace the zest with cinnamon. Stir the ingredients.
- Gradually add flour to a plate with the mixture, add salt and soda, oil.
- Knead the dough.
- Put the finished dough in a pre-oiled baking dish, the recommended size of which is 22 cm.
- Cook the carrot cake in the oven at 180 ° C for 30 minutes.
Sprinkle with icing sugar before serving. You can garnish with fresh berries. If the carrot cake seems dry to you, then cut it into 2 pieces and spread with jam.
Carrot cake recipe number 2
Carrot cake, the recipe for which will be discussed below, differs from the previous baking option. In this case, the vegetable will not be included in the dough, but is the filling for the pie.
To make a delicious carrot cake dough, you will need:
- 250 ml of kefir;
- 0.5 cups vegetable oil;
- 3 cups flour;
- 11-12 g of dry yeast (this is 1 sachet);
- 1 tsp. salt and sugar.
For the filling, take:
- 5 medium carrots;
- 2 tbsp. l of vegetable oil;
- 2 tbsp. l. water;
- 1, 5 Art. l. lemon juice;
- sugar and salt to taste.
For a beautifully colored carrot cake, use strong black tea with sugar to grease the dough before baking.
To make a delicious carrot cake, you need to do the following:
- Prepare the dough. To do this, combine kefir with butter and heat the mass in a water bath.
- Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl: flour, salt, sugar and yeast.
- Slowly pour the kefir-oil mass into the dry mixture.
- Knead the dough, then cover the piece and let stand for half an hour.
- While the dough is coming up, prepare the filling for the carrot pie. Wash the carrots, remove the peel from it, grate on a fine grater.
- Put the prepared vegetable in a preheated pan, add lemon juice, sugar and salt, water to the root vegetable. Stir the ingredients, simmer them under a lid over low heat for 5-7 minutes. Stir the carrots occasionally.
- By this time, the dough should already come up. Take a baking dish and roll out the dough so that it fits into the dish of your choice. The recommended dough thickness is 1 cm.
- If the baking dish is small and there is too much dough, then divide the piece. From the leftover dough, you can make rolls, small pies, another carrot cake or pizza.
- Place the carrot filling on the rolled dough, spreading it out in an even layer.
- Bend the edges of the dough slightly so that you get the sides.
- Grease the sides with sweet tea, you can egg.
- Bake the carrot pie until tender in the oven at 180 ° C.
Carrot cake prepared according to the proposed recipe is good both cold and hot.
And some small tips. If after making 1 carrot cake you still have dough, then make another cake, but with a different filling. It turns out very tasty if you prepare the filling not only with carrots, but also with an egg.
If you do not want to prepare the dough yourself, then purchase the finished product in the store. 500 g of the blank is enough for you to make a delicious carrot pie.
Choose 1 of the suggested recipes and cook in your kitchen.
