Eggless Carrot Cake

Egg-less Soft moist and delicious Carrot cake

📝 Ingredients

• 2 cup Refined Flour / Maida
• 1.5 cup Carrot / Gajar (grated)
• 1.25 cup Sugar / Chini
• 1.5 cup Yogurt / Dahi
• 1/2 cup sunflower oil
• 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
• 1/3 tsp Cinnamon /daalchini
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/3 tsp Baking Soda
• pinch Salt / Namak
• 3 tbsp Walnuts / Akhrot (chopped)
• 1/4 cup Whole Milk / Doodh
• 115 gms Cream cheese
• 2 tbsp Unsalted Butter
• 1 cup Icing sugar
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence or any fruit essence

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Preheat your oven at 180 degree C for 10 minutes.
2. 2Sieve together refined flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon powder.
3. 3In another bowl add oil, yogurt, powdered sugar and 2 tbsp of milk and mix well till the sugar dissolves completely.
4. 4Now add vanilla essence and grated carrots and mix it.
5. 5Keep adding little refined flour mixture at a time and keep mixing till all the flour incorporate in the mixture .
6. 6You can add little milk if needed.the batter should not be too thick.
7. 7Now add chopped walnuts and mix gently.
8. 8Pour the batter in a greased cake tin and tap gently to level it and to remove the air bubbles.
9. 9Bake in the preheated oven for about 25-30 minutes.
10. 10Check by inserting a tooth oick in the center ,if it came out clean then its done ,else cook further for 5 minutes.
11. 11Remove from the oven and rest atleast for 10 minutes.
12. 12Now unmould and let it cool down completely on the wire rack .
13. 13--- Frosting ---
14. 14In a bowl add cream cheese and butter (both should be soft and on room temperature )
15. 15Beat with a whisk to make it soft and smooth.
16. 16Add sugar and whisk again till it become fluffy and smooth.
17. 17Add vanilla essence (you can also add lemon essence ) and mix it well.
18. 18when your cake cool down comopletely then apply frosting over it ,else it melt and become runny after some time. so do rememember to let it cool down or better if you apply frosting next day.
19. 19Apply frosting on top and then fill the left over frosting in a piping bag and using a star nozzle make florets on the sides and one in a middle.
20. 20Crush some walnuts finely and sprinkle in the middle empty space.
21. 21Put a cherry in the middle floret to garnish.
22. 22Slice and enjoy your carrot cake !