It's my boy's second birthday....So I decided to make a cake in two shape...I have baked cakes many times...but with frosting i have done only 2 or 3 times...So i have tried this time and achieved a decent look i think...Pardon me if it's not much professional looking and i'm still an amateur in this field...We gave it as a surprise to him at 12'o clock and he loved it...He's telling numbers now a days and as soon as he saw it he yelled "two two"...So it looks like two...that's enough i think...
The carrot cake itself is a super moist and soft cake....I followed paula deen's recipe for basic cake..Our family like whipped cream frosting than other types of frosting...So i used it...You can do any frosting as u want...I used brown sugar, white sugar can also be used...Try this yummy cake and enjoy...
Ingredients
| Ingredient | Measurement |
| All purpose flour/Maida | 1 1/2 cup |
| Brown Sugar/white sugar | 1 1/2 cup |
| Salt | 1/2 tsp |
| Vegetable oil | 3/4 cup |
| Baking soda | 1 tsp |
| Cinnamon powder | 1/2 tsp |
| Eggs | 3 |
| Carrot shredded | 1 cup |
| Pecan | 1/8 cup |
For Frosting
| Ingredient | Measurement |
| Heavy whipping cream | 1 cup |
| Sugar | 1 1/2 tblsp |
Method
Preheat oven to 400 degrees farenheit(205 degree celcius)....Take all purpose flour,brown sugar,salt,baking soda,cinnamon powder in a wide bowl and combine them all...Then add the eggs and vegetable oil...Mix well...
Then add the shredded carrots and pecan and combine them all....cake batter is ready...
Take oven proof dish and grease it with little butter...Then sprinkle some flour in it and tap the dish rotate so that the dish is dusted with the floor...this is called dusting...do so for the surfaces touching the cake batter...For this 2 shaped cake I prepared 2 cakes....
Bake it in oven for around 40 minutes...or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean...To form 2 shape , cut the round cake as shown in the picture...
Form the 2 shape, by using the cut out piece...Trim any excess if needed...You can use toothpicks to attach the pieces of cake , so that they stand sturdy...For frosting, take heavy whipping cream in a wide bowl and add the vanilla essence...
Using a hand mixer, whip the cream well until soft peaks are formed...Add the sugar little by little in between..If we invert the bowl the cream should not fall...thats the consistency of soft peaks....
First make light coating of cream around the cake and keep it in fridge for some time....Then apply second coating and finish off...Use little scraps of parchment paper around cake while frosting, so that in the end there will be no crumbs around the cake...
I decorated it finally using blue and green gems/m&m 's....
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