Carrot cake with sour cream - very easy to prepare

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• oven;
• mixer;
• deep bowl;
• glass;
• cutting board;
• knife;
• spoon;
• a bowl;
• silicone spatula;
• parchment paper;
• split baking dish;
• tack;
• grill for the oven;
• a knife for bread;
• a dish for the cake;
• pastry bag.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Making biscuit

1. First, preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Beat the mixer with 3 eggs at room temperature until splendid.
   
2. Add 180 g of sugar to the beaten eggs and beat for about 3 minutes to disperse the sugar.
   
3. Grate two medium carrots on a fine grater.
   
4. Add the grated carrots to the egg mixture and pour 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
   
5. Sift the flour, first add 120 g of flour to the mixer bowl to the rest of the ingredients. Knead well so that the flour is evenly dispersed.
   
6. Pour 0.5 tsp into a glass. soda, pour 1 tbsp. l vinegar to soda quenched, stir with a spoon.
   
7. In the mixer bowl, add the remaining 75 g of flour, quenched baking soda to the dough, and mix again.
   
8. Take a detachable baking dish with a diameter of 24 cm, line it with parchment paper. We spread the finished dough in a baking dish, put in the oven, reducing the temperature to 180 degrees, bake for 30 - 40 minutes.
   

Cooking cream

1. Fat sour cream is sent to the bowl of the mixer, add 1 tbsp. l vanilla extract, beat at medium speed.
   
2. Add 8 tbsp. l icing sugar and continue to whisk.
   
3. When the powder intervenes well, add 24 g of thickener for sour cream, whisk until the cream thickens. The cream is ready.
   

Cooking cream for decoration

1. In order to make the cake festive and even more beautiful, we will make a no decor in the form of carrots from a multi-colored cream. To do this, you need dry food colors in two colors - orange and green.
   
2. We take two glasses, in one pour 2 g of orange dye, in the other - the same amount of green.
   
3. Then pour 0.5 tsp into each glass. cold water and mix thoroughly.
   
4. We take two bowls. In one we impose 1 tbsp. l sour cream and add a few drops of diluted green dye, knead well.
   
5. In the second bowl add 4 - 5 tbsp. l cream and pour a few drops of diluted orange dye, mix thoroughly. If you are not satisfied with the color, you should add a drop of dye until the color suits you.
   

Assembly and decoration of the cake

1. We take out the baked cake from the oven, separate it from the walls of the mold with a knife, remove the split ring and release the cake.
   
2. In order to give the biscuit an even shape, turn it over to the grate, press down a little, remove the bottom of the form, parchment and leave to cool.
   
3. When the biscuit has completely cooled, we cut it into two or three cakes with a bread knife.
   
4. We shift one cake to the dish, spread 3 - 4 tbsp on top. l cream, silicone spatula evenly distribute it around the perimeter.
   
5. Cover with a second crust on top, squeeze a little. With the remaining cream, coat the top and sides of the cake.
   
6. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with 100 g chopped walnuts.
   
7. We send the cake for impregnation in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 hours. Decorating a cake is better after it is completely saturated.
   
8. In order to decorate the cake and make the decor of carrots, you need to visually divide it into 8 parts.
   
9. In one pastry bag we place the cream of orange color, in the other - green. First we make carrots - stepping back from the edge of the cake a couple of centimeters, we squeeze out an orange carrot with a snake so that it is 3 cm thick on top and goes down to narrow.
   
10. Thus we form 8 carrots.
    
11. Green cream from the culinary bag will make the leaves in any shape.
    
12. Delicious, fragrant carrot cake ready with carrot decor. Enjoy your meal!
    

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