Today we will overview the kind of food which is, in fact, the essential part of all the holiday menu - a dessert. In order to cook a delicious homemade cake you‘ll need to have a list of certain ingredients and, of course, skill. But it does not mean that young chefs can’t make a multi-layered dessert on their own just because they’re unexperienced. Today you have a great chance, dear baker, to learn how to prepare the delicious carrot cake which is so such popular in Europe.
Carrot cake was first cooked in the Middle Ages. While sugar was rather expensive, carrot was a very affordable vegetable. Furthermore, the sweet carrot pulp was used for small cakes, which were then supplemented with cream of dairy products. Was it Italy, England or Switzerland were the dish has originated? Nobody of modern historians knows for sure on the origin of the carrot cake, but they can’t deny the fact that this incredibly beautiful and unique dessert is one of the most beloved in Europe.
Carrot cake or cream pies, as they are sometimes called, have no definite shape. They may be round, square or any other, since it does not really matter. You may complement this wonderful cake with anything you like, within reason, of course. Nuts, raisins, coconuts and pineapples - inside the dough or just for decoration and cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese for the cream. So, don’t waste time and start cooking right now!
Ingredients for flatbread (korzh):
Additional ingredients:
Combine the butter with powdered sugar.
Add vanilla or vanilla sugar.
Grind oil and powdered, then add cottage cheese.
All the components of the cream should be whisked and put in the fridge.
Carrots should be cut into long strips, about 10 pieces.
Grate peeled carrots.
With a pestle, crush heated almond nuts in the microwave.
Add some nut crumb to the grated carrots.
Now, manually mix carrot and nut with cinnamon.
In a separate bowl, break the warm eggs.
Add the sugar and whisk the eggs with the sugar to get the foam.
Add some baking powder to the foam.
Now put a little flour in the dough.
Add the dough for sponge cake in carrot harvesting.
Carefully, not to deprive the dough its fluffiness, mix cake components.
Butter the baking dish and spread the dough on it. Bake the cake at a 380F for about 35 minutes.
Cake is not necessarily to be removed from the dish, but cooled a bit , and then removed.
Divide the flatbread into two parts andover it with curd cream.
Put the cake in a cool place.
Cover one flatbread with another, then grease the surface and cake sides with the cream.
Sprinkle with coconut flakes and put the cake in the fridge.
In the meantime, for decoration, boil the carrot. Spread several pieces on a paper towel, boil the rest of them until soft and make a jam.
Decorate your carrot cake.
Turn on your imagination and decorate the cake, then put it in the fridge.
Cut the cake into pieces and serve with tea.
Options and variations
Juicy, soaked with cottage cheese and butter cream and sprinkled with coconut flakes, this carrot cake is itself a decoration of the table , even if it is just pure white, without nuts, flowers and curls.
You may use melted butter for the base flatbread, as you would do with classic biscuit. Carrot cake with sour cream instead of cottage cheese is also a great option. To make it, just replace the cottage cheese with sour cream, whip longer and leave it in the fridge for a long time.
High-calorie foods in reasonable quantities is, of course, healthy to all those who do not suffer from excess weight and does not have a history of chronic disease. If we compare our carrot dessert with other sweet cakes, we’ll see that it’s much more healthier thanks to the main component - carrots. Boiled carrot is a great antioxidant, recognized all over the world, capable of the penetration into the human body to prevent many terrible diseases. Cottage cheese is the main source of calcium and it is also present in this amazing dessert.
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