Dates and Carrot Cake – Recipe 1

Ingredients for Dates and Carrot Cake (Recipe 1):
1. Dates – 300 gm, seedless
2. Warm water – 1 cup
Baking soda – ½ small spoon
3. Butter – 125 gm
Brown sugar – 1 cup
Vanilla essence – 1 small spoon
Pineapple chopped into small pieces and boiled – 2 big spoons
4. Carrot – 1, grated and squeezed
5. Maida – 1.25 cups
Baking powder – ½ small spoon
6. Almonds chopped – To decorate
How to prepare Dates and Carrot Cake (Recipe 1)?
1. Remove the seeds of dates, add baking soda, and soak in water for 2 hours.
2. Strain water content and blend once using a mixer.
3. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
4. Beat ingredients no: 3 in a bowl.
5. Add the carrot and dates mixture and beat the contents slowly.
6. Blend maida and baking powder, and then add to the fruit mixture. Batter is ready.
7. Grease a cake tray and put a butter paper.
8. Pour cake batter into the tray and sprinkle chopped almonds on its top.
9. Bake the cake in a pre-heated oven for 45-48 minutes.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, December 15 – 31, 2019

Dates & Carrot Cake (Recipe 2)
Ingredients for Dates & Carrot Cake (Recipe 2):
1. Maida – 2 cups
Baking powder – 1 small powder
Baking soda – 1 small powder
2. Powdered sugar – 2 cups
Oil – 1.5 cups
3. Yellow yolk – 3
4. Grated carrot – 2 cups
Dates chopped fine – 1 cup
Cashews – 1 cup
Cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, powdered – 1.5 small spoons
5. Vanilla essence – A few drops
Honey/Caramelized sugar syrup – ½ cup
6. Egg white – 3
How to prepare Dates & Carrot Cake (Recipe 2)?

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Blend together ingredients no: 1.
3. Beat the oil and powdered sugar together till it turns soft.
4. Add the yellow yolk to it and beat for 2 more minutes.
5. Add ingredients no: 4 to it and mix well.
6. Add essence and Honey/Caramelized sugar syrup and mix the contents well.
7. Beat egg white till it turns thick.
8. Add the maida mixture and egg white alternatively to the carrot mixture.
9. Mix the contents well and pour this batter into a greased baking tray.
10. Bake it in a pre-heated oven for 40-50 minutes.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, December 1 – 14, 2019
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