Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Icing

Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients

Wheat flour – 1 cup

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Baking soda – ½ tsp

Cinnamon powder - ¾ tsp

Ginger powder – ½ tsp

Cloves powder – pinch

Nutmeg powder – pinch

Eggs – 3

Ripe Banana (elaichi kela) – 1

Jaggery powder – 1 cup

Vanilla extract – ½ tsp

Coconut oil – ¼ cup

Hung curd – ½ cup

Grated carrot – ¾ cup

Walnuts - ¾ cup

Salt – ¼ tsp

Cream Cheese icing

Low fat paneer – ½ cup

Butter – ¼ cup

Jaggery powder – ¾ cup

Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp

Coffee powder – 1 tsp

Vanilla extract – ¼ tsp

Walnuts – ¼ cup

Method

Cake

Mix the dry ingredients well

Beat the eggs well and fold in gradually into the dry mixture

Add curds, mashed banana, essence, walnuts and oil to it

Mix slowly

Add more curd if required

Pour the batter into a cake tin

Bake in a preheated oven (170 degrees) for 35 mins till a knife inserted into it comes out clean

Let it cool in the oven

Cream Cheese icing

Blend the paneer and butter in a mixie till it becomes smooth

Add a tbsp of fresh curd while blending

Mix the other ingredients and beat well

Spread the icing on the sides and the top of the cake

Sprinkle some toasted walnuts on top