Recipe: Yummy Chocolate Carrot Cake

Chocolate Carrot Cake.

Chocolate Carrot Cake You can have Chocolate Carrot Cake using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Carrot Cake

  1. You need 4 of eggs.
  2. You need 3 cups of grated carrot.
  3. It’s 1.5 cup of all-purpose flour.
  4. It’s 1/2 cup of cocoa powder.
  5. It’s 2 cups of sugar.
  6. Prepare 1.5 tsp of baking powder.
  7. You need 1.5 tsp of baking soda.
  8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
  9. You need 2 tsp of cinnamon powder.
  10. You need 1and 1/4 cup of vegetable oil.
  11. Prepare 2 tbsp of chopped nuts.
  12. You need 2 tsp of vanilla essence.

Chocolate Carrot Cake step by step

  1. Seive together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and cinnamon powder..
  2. Grind the sugar and make powder, keep aside..
  3. Beat the eggs with salt..
  4. Add the vanilla essence and whisk again for about 3 minutes..
  5. Now goes the powdered sugar and mix well for about 5 minutes.
  6. Add the vegetable oil and mix for a minute.
  7. Add the flour mixture and mix it by gently folding.
  8. Add the carrots and nuts and fold again.
  9. Transfer to a greased tin.
  10. Bake for 40 minutes at 180°.
  11. Do a knife check when done..
  12. Cool it before serving..
  13. I added a layer of sugar glaze on top of the cake by mixing 2tbsp sugar with 1/2tsp water (optional).