Showing posts with label Carrot cake Italian style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carrot cake Italian style. Show all posts

10.22.2013

Carrot cake Italian style


Carrot cake Italian style

Ingredients: 
200gr (½cup-3.5oz) flour  
400gr (1.75cup-14oz) brown sugar  
4 eggs  
350ml (12oz) vegetable oil  
400gr (1.75cup-14oz) carrots, grated  
275gr (1.2cup-9.6oz) nuts, crushed  
16gr (3½tsp) baking powder  
1tsp cinnamon powder  
½tsp nutmeg  
1 pinch salt  
oil to grease the tin

Sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. In a large bowl whisk eggs with sugar then add oil. Pour in flour mixture, then carrots and nuts. Grease a 18cm (8inch) square cake tin (a rectangular one will be perfect as well), then spoon in the mixture and bake at 170°C (325°F - gas mark 3) for an hour. Cool down in the tin first and then on a wirerack. Wrap the cake with tin wrap and leave to rest for a day before serving.