Eggless Carrot Cake and Award

This is my second egg-less cake and again the result is awesome!!! It came out very moist and had beautiful texture. Again I replaced the eggs with yogurt and looks like its working for me.

This is a very flavorful cake especially the spices add inviting flavor to it. The carrots provide nice color. Try it for your self, you will love it !




Ingredients:

*Whole wheat bleached flour - 1 cup
Carrots - 2
Indian curd (thick) or Yogurt - 1/2 cup
Canola oil - 1/2 cup
Brown sugar - 2/3 cup
Nutmeg powder- 1tsp
Cinnamon powder - 1tsp
Vanilla essence - 1tsp
Milk 1tbsp
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Salt -1/4 tsp
Raisins - handful
Walnuts, chopped - handful

Method

Pre- heat the oven at 360 degree Fahrenheit and grease the baking pan and keep it aside

Combine all the dry ingredients [except sugar] and sieve it through at least 2 times

Blend oil, thick yogurt, sugar and vanilla with a beater for 1 minute at medium speed

Next fold in the dry ingredients and mix gently without running the mixer

Add milk if the batter looks dry and mix with hand mixer for 2 minutes at medium speed [the batter should not be runny. It is on the thicker/denser side]

Throw in walnuts and raisins and pour the batter in a greased cake or muffin pan and bake for 20-25 minutes or until the tooth-pick inserted comes out clean (In my observation, cakes with yogurt take little longer to bake. Don't be surprised if takes more than 25 min)

Let it cool on a cooling tray for 1 hr before slicing

Notes:
* You can use 1/2 cup regular whole flour + 1/2 cup all purpose flour [maida] also
The cake is just sweet....if you want more, increase the sugar content.

Check my Eggless Banana-Walnut Cake

~~~~~~~~~YAY AWARD TIME ~~~~~~~~~

I would like to thank Madhuram of EgglessCooking for awarding me with a generous Amazon gift card for her Whole grain baking event - Oats . Do check her blog for the round-up, you will find a good collection of oats baked goodies.....

Thanks Madhuram!

~~~~~~~~~~Event Participation~~~~~~~~~~

I am sending this entry for "Cook For Yourself " event hosted by Radhika who is celebrating her first blog anniversary!