With its cheese frosting, with its juiciness and allowing you to make the most of any carrot we have at home. Recipes icon American pastriesthe Carrot Cake (“carrot cake”, if we are being picky) arrived to give new luster to such an orange vegetable.
We knew that we could do wonders with them in salty cuisine, as we have done since time immemorial, but the American influence gave us a simple recipe, it turns out and we have it ready in just over an hour. And if you are short on time, there is nothing like using a food processor in the carrot cake recipes in Thermomix or carrot cake in Thermomix.
There are very few complications and if you want lighten your sweet phase you can reduce the amount of frosting which serves as coverage, although we believe that the purist version is well worth treating yourself to from time to time.
From there, you can modulate certain aromas or spices that could go well in the mix and that combine well with the sweetness of the carrot. This is the case of cumin, star anise, cinnamon or ginger, which go quite well with this super cake.
To make an American carrot cake, we must keep in mind that we will need two preparations and a more or less long rest to settle the cake and then cut it to finish the recipe.
We must start with the cake, for which we must beat the eggs and add the spices, sugar and sunflower oil. When the dough is homogeneous, we add the well sifted dry and the grated carrot, in enveloping movements so that everything is well integrated.
We spread the mixture into a 26-centimeter cake mold, while we preheat the oven to 180 ºC. When it is hot, we put the mold and we bake for about 50 minutes or until we see that, when we insert a toothpick, it remains dry.
like frosting It is solved very quickly if we have electric rods, we can wait until the cake is dry and cold. If we do not have electric wands and we only have manual ones, we can start frosting.
It is really nothing more than a sweet cream that we are going to make mixing well with the rods, until homogeneous, the creamed butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla essence. When it’s ready, we reserve.
We cut the cake into two circles, Split it in half as if we were making two discs, and fill the middle with the frosting and also cover it with it.
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What to accompany carrot cake with
Juicy and sweet, a Carrot Cake Like this one, it is more of a cake or sponge cake for a snack, breakfast or even a brunch than to have as a dessert after a heavy meal, although we wouldn’t say it would go wrong either.
The best friends of a cake or cake like this are a good coffee or good teaa large table to share it and a good time to taste it and enjoy like children at the expense of the frosting and the intense flavor of the carrot and the spices that are part of the mixture.
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