Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, brazilian carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A traditional favorite in my family, Brazilian carrot cake is very different from the American version. The popular cake is topped with homemade chocolate frosting, and perfect to serve with a glass of milk or tea. Decidedly different from its American counterpart, Brazilian carrot cake uses carrots that are blended with oil, sugar, and eggs instead of grated resulting in a light, moist, tender cake. Brazilian Carrot Cake Quite different from the American version, this Brazilian Carrot Cake is the easiest carrot cake you'll ever make!
Brazilian Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Brazilian Carrot Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have brazilian carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Brazilian Carrot Cake:
- Make ready 3 medium Carrots
- Make ready 3 large Eggs
- Get 3/4 cup Vegetable oil
- Prepare 2 cup Flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup White sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp Baking Powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp Pumpkin spice mix (optional)
- Make ready 1 Each Vanilla & Almond extract (Optional)
- Prepare Topping
- Prepare 1 cup Icing Sugar
- Make ready 1 cup Chocolate powder/cocoa powder
- Make ready 1/4 cup Milk
- Get 50 grams Butter
While the American Carrot Cake is chunky and spiced and has a cream cheese frosting, the Brazilian Carrot Cake is less indulgent, more sweet and has a chocolate frosting - which can be brigadeiro. In Brazil, instead of adding grated carrots for texture, we blend them until smooth. This Brazilian Carrot Cake comes together so quickly with a blender and a bowl. The oil gives it a tender crumb, which means you can start from the get-go, and there's no waiting for the butter to come to room temperature.
Steps to make Brazilian Carrot Cake:
- Preheat oven 350°F & light grease a 9 inch baking pan. Set aside
- Blend carrots, eggs, & veg oil until smooth. Feel free to add your extracts now (Optional)
- Sift flour, sugar, & baking powder together & mix. At this point feel free to add spice (optional).
- Mix wet & dry ingredients together. Pour batter into your baking pan & Bake for 45 mins.
- For topping: melt ingredients in a medium pot/pan mix & use when cake is done
This Brazilian Carrot Cake comes together so quickly with a blender and a bowl. The oil gives it a tender crumb, which means you can start from the get-go, and there's no waiting for the butter to come to room temperature. And yes, it is amazing with that chocolate ganache coat - a double one at that.. Yes, Brazilian carrot cake is very different from that in America and Europe. Besides not having raisins, walnuts, almonds and spices, the most interesting difference in this recipe is that the carrots are beaten and incorporated with the other ingredients.
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