This eggless carrot cake is my family and friends
favorite dessert. This delicious and
healthy cake has the combination taste of Orange and carrot. My elder son likes cream cheese frosting on
top of the cake. In this recipe I have
used Flax seed meal and Yogurt as an egg substitutes.
Ingredients:
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1 a 2/3rd cup of All- purpose
flour (You could also use 1 cup
All-purpose flour and 2/3rd cup wheat flour)
o
2 cups grated carrot
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1 cup of Brown sugar (If you’re not doing
frosting then add ¼ cup more Brown sugar)
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2/3 cup Canola oil
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1 tbsp. Flax seed meal
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¼ cup Orange juice
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½ cup Plain Yogurt (I used homemade yogurt)
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½ tsp. salt
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1 and ½ tsp. baking powder
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1 and ½ tsp. baking soda
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¼ tsp. of Cinnamon powder
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1 tsp. Vanilla extract
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¼ cup Chopped Walnuts (optional)
o
¼ cup raisins (Optional)
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| Wet mixture, Dry mixture, grated carrot and nuts. |
Procedure
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Preheat the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit
heat (or 176 o c).
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Place a parchment paper in two small round
cake pans. (Because it is easy to remove the cake from the pan if you use them)
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Blend Flax seed meal and ¼ cup of water until
well mixed; keep this mixture aside.
o
Sieve All-purpose flour, Baking soda, salt
and Baking powder. Then add cinnamon
powder to this mix.
o
Using the electrical hand blender gradually
blend the wet ingredients one at a time (oil, flax seed meal mix, Yogurt,
Orange juice and Vanilla essences).
o
Now add Brown sugar to wet mixture; Blend it well.
o
After that slowly add All-purpose mixture into wet mixture; Blend it well.
o
Now add the grated carrot in the batter and blend
the mixture (At this time don’t blend it in a high speed, blend it 2 to 3 times by pausing
it).
o
Add Walnuts and Raisins to the batter and mix
them with spatula.
o
Now pour equal amount of this batter into two
round cake pans and put the pans in a preheated oven.
o
Now bake them for 45 minutes to 1 hour or
until it is well cooked.
o
Once done, remove the pans from oven and keep
it for cool down. After the pan cools
down reverse the pan and remove the cake from the pan and then remove the parchment
paper on the cake.
Frosting
ingredients:
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¼ cup unsalted butter (should be at room
temperature).
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8 oz. cream cheese (should be at room
temperature).
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1 and ½ cup powdered sugar/icing sugar
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½ tsp. vanilla essence
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1 tsp. finely grated lemon zest (grate outer
skin of lemon and this is an optional ingredient)
Procedure for
making Frosting
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With a hand mixer, beat the butter and cream
cheese at a low speed until well blended with no lumps.
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Now gradually add powdered sugar and blend the
mixture at a low speed, then add lemon zest and vanilla essence to the
mixture. Blend this mixture until it
becomes fluffy.
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| Two baked cakes and cream cheese frosting |
Assembling process:
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Place one cake on a placing plate upside down then spread the
¼ part of the frosting on top of the cake . Now place the other cake upside down on top
of it, then spread the remaining frosting on top and the surroundings of the
cakes. If desire you can decorate the
cake with your own designs.
Enjoy this delicious carrot cake with your family and friends.
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