Killer recipe for carrot cake wanted

skellysgirl

i have a great one, well its not mine but here look here, everone loves this carrrot cake, they all fight for it at work

sb44

skellysgirl wrote: »

i have a great one, well its not mine but here look here, everone loves this carrrot cake, they all fight for it at work

Thanks, that looks lovely.

We are not keen on walnuts, could you omit them?

FemmeAuFoyer

Thanks aussielle for the carrot cake recipe. It's cooking in the oven right now!

competitionscafe

This carrot cake recipe is the best one I have tried so far:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7Re7_thI3HAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=falling+cloudberries#PPA259,M1

You can leave out the walnuts or replace them with raisins (I like it with walnuts though).

kate83

After looking through a few recipes, I noticed they've all got a lot of sugar in. I always thought the whole point of carrot cake was that the carrots added the sweetness in wartime when there wasn't much sugar about.
Has anyone got an original recipe?

Or for any other vegetable cakes?

thriftlady_2

Well I've looked through all my wartime cookbooks and I can't find a single recipe for carrot cake. I'm most surprised. I do have one that is entitled Wartime Carrot Cake in a book called Cakes Regional and Traditional by Julie Duff (marvellous book btw).

This is how she makes it.

Grease and line a 7 inch square tin.

Put in a bowl
8oz self-raising flour
2 tsp bicarb
Rub in until like breadcrumbs
5oz butter (more likely to have been marge in wartime)
Mix in
5oz sugar
2oz sultanas
2oz walnuts (nuts were hard to get during the war, so not sure about the authenticity of this addition)
5oz grated carrot
half a tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs, beaten
mix well and pour into the prepared tin.
Bake at 180C for about an hour.

As you can see there is sugar in it but not too much. you could experiment with reducing the sugar.

I'm sure parsnips would work as well as carrots. I made beetroot and cocoa muffins once- they were OK.

kate83

Thank you - 5oz still seems a lot for wartime though!

purpleorc

I am sorry I can not help you with the low sugar carrot cake but I know of a recipe for using another vegetable in a cake that is corgettes ( or zucchini ) this is this web site. CLICK HERE

you could also subsitute the gluton flour for bread flour if unable to obtain this or too costly.


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Penelope_Penguin

kate83 wrote: »

After looking through a few recipes, I noticed they've all got a lot of sugar in. I always thought the whole point of carrot cake was that the carrots added the sweetness in wartime when there wasn't much sugar about.
Has anyone got an original recipe?

Or for any other vegetable cakes?

I thought carrots were there to give a moistness to the cake I'll add this to our existing carrot cake recipe thread to keep recipes together.

Penny. x

kate83

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I thought carrots were there to give a moistness to the cake I'll add this to our existing carrot cake recipe thread to keep recipes together.

Penny. x

They might be - just my mum always told me it was a wartime thing, maybe it's not