Spiced Carrot Cake by(The Cake Girl)Seline

Seline Kuti
Seline Kuti @cook_10000028
Mombasa

#Mombasa Swahili Cookout.

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Ingredients

  1. 500 gms flour
  2. 600 gms sugar
  3. 226 gms butter/veg cooking oil
  4. 4 pcs eggs
  5. 480 ml buttermilk
  6. 100 gms Grated Carrots
  7. 2 tsp baking soda
  8. 2 tsp vinegar
  9. 250 gms butter
  10. 2 tspns Nutmeg
  11. 500 gms Icing sugar
  12. 2 tspns Grounded Ginger
  13. 2 tspns Grounded Cinnamon

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Sieve all the dry ingredients together

  2. 2

    Cream butter and sugar

  3. 3

    Beat eggs separately and add to the sugar and butter mixture.

  4. 4

    Wash,peel and grate carrots

  5. 5

    Prepare the buttermilk,
    Put 2tspns of lemon juice and add to 230ml milk.
    Let it settle for 20min

  6. 6

    Add the flour,buttermilk and carrots to the mixture alternating until well mixed.

  7. 7

    Pre heat the oven for 5-10min at 180°c.
    Put the Vinegar in a small bowl and add baking soda until a fizzy reaction is formed

  8. 8

    Line the baking pans,put the batter in the pans and put in the oven for 40min for 180°

  9. 9

    To test for cake readiness, when a toothpick,clean knife,a fork or a skewer is inserted it comes out clean.

  10. 10

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