Carrot Cake is one of the dearest recipes for me, not only due to the amazing taste of the carrot and cinnamon combination, but also because it is this simple recipe that gave me the push to go further into cooking,
This recipe has been posted in my old blog on September 6th 2011 and it had a great success, which continues even today. It is wonderful to me that this blog still is read. It was actually one of my readers who messaged me and suggested for a comeback of this recipe, this time on the Kikiliciouss Web as it was her favorite recipe. It makes me so happy when my readers not only follow my posts but they also make suggestions and attract my attention; I had completely forgotten that I had not yet included this recipe in the web.
We wanted to celebrate this recipe with a non “conventional” Kikiliciouss visual language but via a Stop-Motion video, which makes it even funnier and enticing,
This is a very simple recipe and can be cooked with ingredients easily findable in every kitchen, It is a recipe to whom I stand stoic and don’t even try to change through the years. All this because I think that this cake is ideal to be eaten simply as it is cooked or even used to prepare cakes with different creams (as has been done in the video).
Ingredients :
4 eggs
530 gram white sugar
340 gram all-purpose flour
115 gram olive oil
125 gram corn oil
1 dish spoon cinnamon
1 dish spoon baking powder
1 tea spoon baking soda
500 gram minced carrots
Method:
Preheat oven to 150°C
Line with parchment paper a regular or a springform pan (28cm or smaller if you’re baking it in two batches)
Cream together sugar and eggs until pale, thick and doubled in volume
Add both types of oil and with your mixer running slowly add baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon
Add flour to the wet mixture and beat until you no longer see the flour (do not overmix)
Add minced carrots and make sure everything is well combined
Bake until full baking (until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean)
Let it cool completely
Sift some icing sugar before serving (optional)
Kikiliciouss Carrot Cake from Julia Janku on Vimeo.
Kikiliciouss Carrot Cake from Julia Janku on Vimeo.
Photography by Eranda Janku, unless otherwise stated
Video by Julia Janku
