How to prepare a delicious carrot cake and cover it with a creamy Greek yogurt topping
One of the things we like best about Carrots pie is that it is one of the best ways to eat carrots. Yes, one of the freshest and sweetest vegetables of spring, capable of transforming each dessert into a triumph of crunchiness and taste. Our stylist Beatrice Prada he pureed the new carrots in the mixer, transforming them into an unmissable cake.
Here is his recipe, photographed by Giandomenico Frassi.
Carrot cake: the recipe
Ingredients for the cake
400 g clean new carrots
150 g brown sugar
125 g 00 flour
100 g almond flour
1 teaspoon of yeast
1 teaspoon of baking soda
125 ml sunflower oil
70 g yogurt
2 eggs
Ingredients for the topping
250 g Greek yogurt
50 g cream
50 g icing sugar
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line a 22 cm diameter baking tray with parchment paper. Finely blend the carrots in the mixer, pour them into a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, oil, sugar, eggs, yogurt and mix very well, until the mixture is creamy and homogeneous.
Pour the mixture into the pan and cook for about 45/50 minutes, then leave to cool. To prepare the cream, whip the cream with the sugar and gently add the yogurt.
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