Thursday, July 8, 2010

Carrot Cake



Ingredients:

All purpose / Wheat flour     --    1 cup
Eggs                                    --    2 big eggs
Canola oil                            --    ½ cup
Baking powder                    --    1½ tsp
Powdered Sugar                  --    1 cup
Vanilla Essence                    --   1 tsp
Ground Cinnamon                --   1 tsp
Grated carrot                       --   1 cup
Chopped Nuts                     --   ¼ cup
Salt                                      --   a pinch

Preparation of Cake:

Sift the flour, salt and baking powder 4 -5 times. This helps to mix the baking powder thoroughly in the flour. Keep it aside.

In a large bowl beat the oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla essence. Add the ground cinnamon. Keep on mixing and add the flour mix spoon by spoon. Make sure that the flour is mixed well in the mixture before adding the next set. Fold in the grated carrots and the chopped nuts.


If the mixture is very thick, add milk to make it the required consistency.

Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan. And pour the mixture into the pan.


Bake in a pre-heated oven at 175 degree Celsius (350 F) for 40 to 50 minutes. Check if a tooth pick comes out neat and if yes let it cool.



24 comments:

  1. hi nitha,

    thats a lovely carrot cake... i am new to baking and i am going to try this recipe for sure...you a very nice space..this is my first comment on your blog :) if u get time do visit my blog

    satya
    http://superyummyrecipes.com

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  2. oh what a tempting looking cake. u have done it so nicely. keep up the good work.

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  3. Cake looks super moist and spongy, awesome cake!!

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  4. Hey Nitha, u tempt me to make the carrot cake again! That looks perfect lady!

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  5. an absolute absolute fav..i recently made a diff version and it came out even better with walnuts in it:)

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  6. Thats one of my favourite cakes !! and yours look so perfect :)

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  7. Nice to be here. Very nice presentation and great clicks.
    Best wishes.

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  8. Looks perfect and delicious dear.. cute presentation :)

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  9. My son's fav cake..looks yummmmmm

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  10. Hi! First time here, the cake looks so cute. I love the carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Following u.
    http://cooking-goodfood.blogspot.com

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  11. Nitha..Nicely baked carrot cake dear, looks super soft and moist..

    Love
    Kairali sisters

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  12. keep uploading such recipes so that i can tempt my baby to eat atleast something......it has come out very well.

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  13. Perfect! an enjoyable treat with my cuppa tea :D

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  14. Wow Nitha, lovely and delicious...carrot cake looks soft and moist.

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  15. Nice carrot cake. Yummy with tea.

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  16. This is so moist and delicious dear...

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  17. Looks delicious cocoa powder nice addition

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  18. i m wordless dear...wat a yummy cake with beautiful presentation. Hats off da.

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  19. Looks so yummy... my hubby's all time fav :)

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  20. delicious cake nitha.. nice decoration with healthy veg carrot.. cake is so soft and yumm good

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  21. lovely cake, its been many days since i had carrot cake, will surely try your version as well...

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