Carrot Cake

You always want to please your family and friends with some delicious dessert made by yourself. And tasty can be combined with healthy. The recipe for this carrot sponge cake with sour cream and chocolate icing is taken from the popular women’s magazine Cosmopolitan with slight modifications.

Cooking: 40 minutes

Ingredients

• For the biscuit:
  Eggs – 4 pcs.
  Flour – 1.5 cups
  Sugar – 1.5 cups
  Carrots (finely grated) – 1.5 cups
  Soda – 1/3 teaspoon
  Lemon (juice) – 1 slice
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• For the cream:
  Sour cream (20-30%) – 500 g
  Sugar – 1 glass
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• For glaze:
  Milk – 2 tablespoon
  Sugar – 4 tablespoon
  Butter – 50 g
  Cocoa powder – 2 tablespoon

Instructions

1. Beat eggs with sugar until firm foam. Add flour. Squeeze some lemon juice into a spoonful of baking soda to trigger a reaction. Add slaked soda to the dough. Squeeze carrots out of excess juice and add them here. Mix the dough gently. Heat the oven to 220 degrees, grease the mold with butter, put the dough in it, and bake a biscuit. Cut the finished and cooled biscuit into 2-3 cakes.
2. Beat the sour cream with sugar. Collect the cake, evenly distributing the cream on all but the top cakes.
3. In a small saucepan, combine milk and sugar. Add oil. Stir the frosting until the butter is completely melted. Add cocoa powder. Stir the glaze, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Let the glaze cool, then pour over the cake.