Royal Carrot Cake

Ingredients list for Royal Carrot Cake

• 300 grams Carrot grated
• Refined Flour
• 4 Eggs
• 300 grams Butter softened
• 300 grams Refined flour (maida)
• 300 grams Sugar
• 2 teaspoons Baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon powder
• a pinch Mace powder
• a pinch Salt
• 1 cup Almond powder
• 1 cup Orange juice
• 1/2 cup Walnuts crushed
• 2 tablespoons Poppy seeds (khuskhus/posto)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC. Break eggs and separate yolks and whites and keep in 2 separate bowls. Cream together butter and sugar in a deep bowl till fluffy and light in colour. Add egg yolks and mix well. Sift together refined flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder and mace powder into another bowl.
2. Beat egg whites with a little salt till stiff and stands in peaks. Add carrots to the butter-egg mixture and mix well. Add almond powder and mix. Add orange juice and mix. Add flour mixture and mix well. Add walnuts and poppy seeds and mix. Add egg whites and fold in gently.
3. Pour the batter into a silicon mould and bake in the preheated oven for about 50 minutes. Remove the mould from the oven and let it stand for 1 hour. Slice and serve with tea.

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