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Carrot Cake

I prepared this cake for my trip to Las Vegas. I normally make it eggless by substituting egg for yogurt, however, didn't have yogurt in my pantry and I had no time to run and get one. So I mixed two of my cake recipe idea ( Eggless Carrot Cake and Moist Banana Muffin) to get this wonderful cake.


Egg Carrot Cake  

Ingredients

All purpose flour - 1.5 cups
Baking soda - 1.5 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Ground Cinnamon - 1/4tsp
Sugar - 1cup
Grated Carrot -1.5 cup
Butter or vegetable oil - 1/4 cup
Milk - 1/4 cup
Egg - 1
Vanilla essence- 1/2 tsp
Walnuts - 1/4 cup

Yogurt - 1/4 cup
Vanilla - 1/4 tsp
Nutmeg powder - 1 tsp
Cinnamon powder - 1tsp
Resins - 1/4 cup

Method:
  1. Heat the oven at 350 F
  2. Line / grease cake pan (I used 8 inch bundt pan)
  3. Sieve all the dry ingredients EXCLUDING SUGAR and keep it aside 
  4. Whisk egg, yogurt, oil,  vanilla essence, milk and sugar 
  5. Slowly fold in the dry ingredients and mix gently 
  6. Add the grated carrots, resins and walnuts. Stir and transfer it into the greased baking pan 
  7. Bake till it clears the toothpick test (It took around 45 minutes to bake this cake. Normally it takes 30 minutes, for some reason  it took longer. Insert a toothpick at 30 minutes and if doesn't come clean,bake till you get the clean toothpick ! )
  8. The cake was just perfect! nice texture and taste.

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Comments

Hari Chandana P said…
Woww.. looks super soft and perfect.. very tempting recipe.. thanks for sharing !!
Indian Cuisine
September 4, 2011 at 7:45 PM
Ms.Chitchat said…
Moist and perfectly baked cake. Loved the texture and the color.
September 4, 2011 at 8:10 PM
Unknown said…
Delicious looking cake
September 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM
Indian Khana said…
That's looks so perfect moist n yum
September 5, 2011 at 5:23 AM
chef and her kitchen said…
cake looks super soft n yumm
September 5, 2011 at 9:32 PM
AJ said…
Cake looks wonderful!!
September 6, 2011 at 4:16 PM
MyKitchen Flavors-BonAppetit!. said…
Yummluking Carrot cake dear.Luv ur yumm blog of recipes and following U.
October 6, 2011 at 4:30 PM
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