Decorated carrot cake
A beautiful, fun and colorful carrot cake.
At the base we obviously have a soft and moist carrot cake. To decorate it we will use a cream cheese, with this cream which we will color orange and green we will make small carrots with the piping bag, I assure you that it is not difficult as a decoration, it is worth doing because you will get a very beautiful cake.
To make the spreadable cheese at home Follow this recipe.
Method
Preheat the oven to 170˚ static.
Prepare a round mold of 24cm in diameter, I recommend an openable mold with a hinge. Line the base with baking paper.
Wash and peel the carrots. Grate them and keep them aside and weigh all the other ingredients.
In a bowl, mix the milk and vegetable oil together with a whisk. Add the sugar and salt, blend with an immersion blender as this type of sugar often has lumps.
Add the carrots and mix with a spatula.
Then add the sifted powders, flour and baking powder, mix constantly with the spatula for a few minutes until you have a homogeneous mixture.
Pour into the mold, level, and bake in a static oven at 170˚ for about 25 minutes.
Check the cooking with a toothpick, then insert the toothpick into the mixture if it comes out dry it means it is baked.
Remove the mold from the oven and let it cool at room temperature for 1 hour.
Then remove the cake from the mold and place it on a plate or tray, place in the fridge for at least 3 hours before decorating with the cream.
Then prepare the cream by whipping together the spreadable cheese, milk and vegetable cream, whipping with the whisk for a few minutes until you have a frothy and stable cream.
Then pour about half the cream onto the cake, spreading it evenly over the entire surface.
With a large, sharp, non-serrated knife, cut the cake into 8 large equal slices, clean the knife after each cut.
Divide the leftover cream into two bowls, color one part orange and one green using water-soluble gel colourings.
Transfer to two small piping bags with two small round nozzles, the orange one slightly larger.
Decorate each slice by creating a mini carrot.
So with the orange cream, making a continuous S that gradually becomes bigger, we make a triangle.Then with the green cream we make a few lines to make the carrot tuft.
The cake is ready, place it in the fridge or serve it.
