Learn how to make a fluffy and very yummy carrot cake for your breakfast and afternoon snack! Check the recipe.
Fluffy Carrot Cake with Chocolate Icing
6
servings40
minutes35
minutesFor your carrot cake to be fluffy and delicious, check out the necessary ingredients and follow the step-by-step instructions on how to prepare this wonderful recipe!
Ingredients
- Cake
3 medium carrots, chopped
4 eggs
3 tablespoons of milk
1 tablespoon of vanilla essence
3/4 cup oil (for those who don’t know, 3/4 cup is almost like a whole cup. Near the edge of the cup, but you leave it just a little less) or 180ml
2 cup caster sugar or 400g
2 cups and 3/4 all-purpose flour (i.e. 2 whole cups plus one cup almost full to the top) or 450g
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon yolk yellow gel food coloring (optional)
- Syrup
3 tablespoons of margarine or half a stick of unsalted butter (100g)
1 and a half cups of refined sugar or 2 for those who prefer it very sweet (I recommend 1 and a half cups)
1 cup 50% cocoa powder (I used Nestlé)
3 cups of whole milk
Directions
- Pasta
- In a blender, add 3 medium chopped carrots;
- Add 4 eggs;
- Add 3 tablespoons of milk;
- Add 1 tablespoon of vanilla essence;
- Add 3/4 cup of oil;
- Beat well;
- Add 1 teaspoon of yolk yellow gel food coloring (optional);
- Beat some more;
- Transfer the dough to a bowl;
- Add 2 cup of granulated sugar or 400g;
- Mix;
- Add 2 and 3/4 cups of wheat flour;
- Mix well;
- Add 1 tablespoon of baking powder;
- Mix;
- Grease a mold with butter and flour;
- Transfer the dough to the form;
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for approximately 35 minutes;
- Syrup
- In a pan over low heat, add 3 full tablespoons of margarine;
- Add 1 and a half cups of refined sugar or 2 for those who prefer it very sweet;
- Add 1 cup of cocoa powder 50%;
- Add 3 cups of whole milk;
- Mix well until it forms a lot of bubbles and gets very dark;
- Turn off the heat and continue stirring for 1 minute;
- Mounting
- Cut the pieces of the cake;
- Pour the syrup on top;
- Your fluffy carrot cake with chocolate frosting is ready!
