The best recipes for carrot cakes – an unusual dessert with a great taste

Did you know that the beta carotene and antioxidants contained in carrots slow down the aging process?

Do you want to lower your cholesterol? Carrots are an obvious choice!

In addition, you can get these vegetables in excellent quality all year round! Hooray for baking!

Carrot cakes are suitable for any occasion.

Carrot cake with cottage cheese

Carrots are the ashes of Czech cuisine. Let her shine and bake some carrot cake with cottage cheese!

You will need:

• 40 dkg of brown sugar
• half a kilo of carrots
• 350 ml of oil
• 4 eggs
• 25 dkg of flour
• 2 teaspoons of soda
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
• ¾ teaspoon of nutmeg
• a cup of nuts
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 40 dkg of cottage cheese
• 10 dkg of butter
• 4 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Preparation process:

• Preheat the oven to 160°C.
• Grease the baking tin with butter.
• Beat the sugar, oil and eggs.
• Slowly add the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
• Add carrots and nuts.
• Pour the batter into the prepared mold and bake for three quarters of an hour.
• How do you know when the cake is ready? Pierce it with a skewer. When no dough remains on it, it is ready and baked.
• Let the cake cool.
• Prepare the cottage cheese mixture: mix the icing sugar, cottage cheese, butter and vanilla extract. Beat with a mixer until everything is perfectly combined.
• Spread the cheese mixture over the cake.
• You can sprinkle coconut, cocoa or cinnamon on top.

Mug Carrot Cake

Don’t want to spend time in the kitchen weighing ingredients? Congratulations! You’ve just discovered a great carrot cake recipe where you only need a mug to prepare everything you need.

You will need:

For the pie dough:

• 1.5 cups plain flour
• ¾ cup of butter
• pinch of salt
• a little very cold water

For the filling:

• 2 cups grated carrots
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• ¾ cup milk

Preparation process:

• First, prepare the pie dough by mixing the still hardened butter with salt and flour. Work the mixture very well until it becomes a mass resembling crumb. Then slowly pour in very cold water. The dough should still be quite crumbly, not wet. Briefly roll out on a floured surface and place in a buttered cake tin. Place baking paper on top of the dough and sprinkle at least a cup of beans on top to prevent the dough from rising too high. Bake for 15 minutes in a moderate oven.
• Now we prepare the filling. First, grate your carrots.
• Beat the eggs, sugar and milk for about 5 minutes.
• Then add ground cinnamon and ¾ cup milk. Add the grated carrot and vanilla extract. And hooray for the cake mix!
• Bake in a moderately heated oven for about half an hour.
• After cooling, cut the cake into slices and decorate with whipped cream.

Healthy carrot cake

Do you plan to have a healthy snack? You don’t need to load yourself with loads of sugar to enjoy it. Try this recipe and enjoy a symphony of flavors!

You will need:

For the pie dough:

• ¾ cup dates
• ½ cup pecans
• ⅓ sweetened coconut flakes
• 1 teaspoon of salt

For the filling:

• 2 cups carrots, cut into thicker rounds
• 2 tablespoons of melted coconut oil
• half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• half a teaspoon of nutmeg
• 1 tablespoon of salt
• 1 egg
• spoon of honey
• 1 cup tofu
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• ½ cup coconut milk

Preparation process:

• Heat the oven to 200°C.
• Prepare thick carrot rings, coconut oil, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a pan.
• Stir over low heat for about 20 minutes until the carrots are soft. Then let cool.
• Prepare the ingredients for the cake body: put all the ingredients in a blender and mix well.
• Line a cake tin with baking paper and brush with coconut oil.
• Put the dough on the cake base in the mold.
• When the carrot mixture has cooled, mix it together with the other ingredients for the filling.
• Pour the mixture over the pie crust.
• Bake for half an hour.
• Allow to cool before serving.

Quick Carrot Cake

When you try this recipe, you will find that you can prepare a delicious dessert in a very short time. and how about recipes for carrot Christmas cookies ?

You will need:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups of powdered sugar
• 30 dkg carrots, which you grate finely
• 1 dcl of sunflower oil
• 1 teaspoon of soda
• 1 teaspoon of lemon zest
• 1 vanilla extract

Preparation process:

• Mix the eggs and sugar for at least 3 minutes.
• Slowly add the oil and 3 tablespoons of lukewarm water.
• Carefully fold in the flour, baking powder and lemon zest.
• Finally, add finely grated carrots to the dough.
• Pour the dough into the cake mold, which you first greased with butter and sprinkled with semi-coarse or coarse flour.
• Bake for 40 minutes in a moderate oven.

Cake with carrots and apples

If you don’t like carrot cakes yet, try baking a delicious carrot-apple cake according to our recipe. Carrots and apples are a great combination, and this cake is also made from the most healthy ingredients!

You will need:

• 1 glass of rye flour
• 1 glass of oil (preferably sunflower or rapeseed)
• 1 glass of cane sugar
• 1 glass of grated apples, including the peel
• 1 glass of grated carrot
• 1 cup chopped nuts (you can choose one type or a nut mixture)
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
• 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• butter to grease the baking pan
• coconut for sprinkling the baking dish

Preparation process:

• Wipe the eggs with sugar and beat until foamy.
• Whisk in the oil, flour and other ingredients.
• Add the carrots and apples last.
• Fill the prepared baking form greased with butter and sprinkled with coconut with the dough and bake for about 40 minutes in an oven heated to 180 °C.

Flourless carrot cake

You will need:

For the dough:

• 400 grams of grated carrot
• 125 ml of sunflower oil
• 265 grams of sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon of ground ginger
• 440 grams of ground almonds
• ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 70 grams of grated coconut
• 70 grams of chopped almonds, dry roasted

TIP: you can add raisins or add any nuts other than almonds (hazelnuts, almonds, etc.)

For the cream:

• 250 grams of fresh cream cheese
• 55 grams of powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice

Preparation process:

• Preheat the oven to 160°C.
• Line a baking dish with a diameter of about 25 centimeters with baking paper.
• Beat the sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs in a bowl with an electric mixer until their volume is 3 times larger and the mass does not thicken.
• Add the rest of the dough ingredients and mix gently.
• Bake in a preheated oven for about 1 and a half hours.
• When preparing the cream, beat all the ingredients.
• Carefully remove the cake from the oven, spread the cream and serve!

Cake with carrots made from spelled flour

This whole wheat carrot cake tastes best when it’s aged, so allow yourself more time if you want to really enjoy it. And if you don’t have that much time, try the recipe for sweet and savory carrot muffins .

You will need:

For the dough:

• 3 large carrots, finely grated
• 1 cup spelled flour
• 1 cup cane sugar
• ¾ cup olive or rapeseed oil
• 1 cup plain flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 2 to 3 teaspoons of cinnamon
• a pinch of nutmeg
• a handful of chopped walnuts (or other types), you can also add raisins to taste

For the cream:

• 1 piece of sour cream
• 1 piece or tub of cottage cheese
• honey for sweetening

Preparation process:

• First, beat the sugar, eggs and oil.
• Add all dry ingredients to a bowl.
• Then carefully mix in the grated carrot and nuts.
• Bake in a greased and poured form in an oven heated to 180 °C.
• The baking time is about 30 minutes, it is better to check the dough with a toothpick.
• Meanwhile, prepare the cream: mix the cottage cheese and sour cream and sweeten with honey as needed.
• Spread the cream when the cake has cooled.
• You can also sprinkle the top with almond slices or pieces of walnuts for decoration.
• Store in the refrigerator.

Carrot cake with mascarpone

You will need:

For the dough:

• 220 grams of carrots
• 175 grams of butter
• 175 grams of plain flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons of buttermilk or yogurt
• 50 grams of ground almonds
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• pinch of salt

For the cream:

• 700 grams of cream cheese (buko, lučina, etc.)
• 500 grams of mascarpone
• 80 grams of powdered sugar
• 1 to 2 lemons

Preparation process:

• First, preheat the oven to 160°C.
• Sift the flour, salt, cinnamon and baking powder into a bowl
• Fill the second bowl with butter, sugar and beat.
• Crack the eggs: yolks and whites separately.
• Add the egg yolks, buttermilk to the bowl with the butter and sugar and mix carefully.
• Finally, add the flour mixture, almonds and carrots and mix.
• Beat the egg whites until stiff and carefully fold them into the dough.
• Line a baking dish with a diameter of around 20 centimeters with baking paper.
• Bake for about 1 hour, then remove the baked body and let it stand for about 10 minutes, then it will be easy to remove from the mold.
• Leave to cool.
• In the meantime, prepare the cream: mix the mascarpone, cheese and powdered sugar and season with lemon juice.
• Cut the body twice lengthwise, you will have 3 parts.
• Spread about ¼ of the cream on the bottom part.
• Then place the second part of the dough on top of the cream and spread it again with cream.
• The same procedure applies to the third part.
• Spread the rest of the cream over the entire cake.
• Chill in the fridge for at least two hours.

TIP: Prepare a carrot cake with sour cream. This cake is a great alternative to the mascarpone cake, you can use the exact same procedure as for the mascarpone cake.

Carrot cake without eggs

You will need:

• 100 grams of spelled flour
• 250 grams of smooth wholemeal flour
• 100 grams of sugar
• 120 grams of fat
• 2 large carrots
• ½ baking powder
• ½ chopped shelled sunflower seeds
• 2 to 3 tablespoons of agave syrup
• milk as needed

Preparation process:

• Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, starch and grated carrot in a bowl.
• Add the softened fat and mix with a whisk.
• Gradually add the milk to make a creamy batter.
• Finally, sprinkle chopped sunflower seeds.
• Mix everything well and pour onto a tray lined with baking paper.
• Bake in an oven heated to 175 °C for about 40 minutes.
• The resulting height of the cake should be roughly 1.5 to 2 centimeters.
• You can leave the cake without the frosting or use any frosting you like!

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Did you know that after heat treatment, carrots are much more beneficial for our body? This is because the cell walls of carrots are hard and difficult for us to digest. On the contrary, during heat treatment, these walls are disrupted, and the organism is able to capture many more beneficial substances, such as beta-carotene.

Carrot face mask

Not only carrot cakes are a great choice, you can prepare pleasant skin masks from raw or cooked carrots. They fight against wrinkles, nourish the skin and add elasticity to the skin.

Raw carrot mask

You will need:

• spoon of starch
• a cup of water
• half a cup of carrot juice

Preparation process:

• Mix the starch in the water.
• Prepare half a cup of carrot juice in a juicer.
• Mix all the ingredients.
• Let it heat up on the stove until the mixture is reduced to a pleasant uniform mass.
• Allow to cool to a comfortable temperature and apply to the face.
• Leave it on for at least a quarter of an hour, then wash off the mask with lukewarm water.
• Repeat the procedure at least once a week.