Celebrate International Carrot Day with Carrot Cake
New Delhi: Celebrate International Carrot Day with some self-made delights using innovative recipes.
Chef Sahil Wadhwa, Director at Wadhwa Baker and Chef Sharad Dewan from THE Park Kolkata have listed recipes to brighten up a carrot lover's day:
* Carrot Cake
Ingredients: For 4 cakes
For the Batter
Flour (maida) 1 kg, Brown sugar 1 kg, Butter 1 kg, Eggs 30, Cinnamon Powder 2 tsp, Raisin 200 gm, Baking powder 2.5 gm, Nutmeg half (grated), Carrots 1 kg, Yogurt 375 gm.
For the Icing
100 gm Butter, 200 gm icing sugar, 100 gm cream cheese.
For Garnish
Orange colour fondant or marzipan
Method for batter: Combine sugar and butter together until creamy. Add eggs one by one so that they can emulsify properly with the sugar mixture. Grate the carrot and sequence all the excess water from the grated carrot and then add to the cake batter by using cut and fold method. Add yogurt.
Add all the dry ingredients, flour, nutmeg, baking powder, cinnamon powder to form cake batter. Grease properly the round tin mould and pour the carrot cake batter. Bake in the oven at 200 Degree Celsius for 35 to 40 minutes.
Method for icing: Combine sugar with butter, once creamy add cheese cream.
Method for garnish: Make small shape carrots from the fondant for the garnish. Spread the icing on the cake and garnish it with small carrots.
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Kalaburagi: 22-yr-old driver killed on spot as pickup vehicle crashes into bridge on NH in Afzalpur
Kalaburagi: The driver of a pickup truck transporting fish was killed on the spot as the vehicle rammed into a bridge on the National Highway bypass in Balurgi village of Afzalpur taluk early Friday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Anil Dasharatha Bhovi (22), a native of Bandarwada village in Afzalpur taluk. He was reportedly driving from Jewargi to Solapur, when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a bridge on the bypass in Balurgi. Anil Said to have died on the spot due to the intensity of the crash.
Afzalpur Police have said that the body of the driver has been sent to the Afzalpur Government Hospital and will be handed over to the family after completion of the postmortem examination.
A case has been registered in this regard at the Afzalpur Police Station and investigation is underway.
