Cottage cheese carrot cake

Today we will make an incredibly delicious cottage cheese carrot cake. It's soft, juicy, fragrant, and doesn't need to be soaked. The carrot is not felt at all, and you can choose spices to your taste. Orange zest, a bit of clove, and cardamom would look good here.

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Cook Time 35

Total Time 35

Course Bakery

Cuisine European

Servings people

Calories 366 kcal

Equipment

2 mix bowl
1 whisk
1 baking sheet
1 plastic wrap
1 toothpick
1 grater
1 parchment or silicone mat

Ingredients

For the cake

2 pcs egg
100 ml vegetable oil
200 g sugar
170 g flour
170 g carrot
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp cinnamon ground
¼ tsp nutmeg ground
½ cup walnut

For the cream

250 g ricotta
200 ml cream 33%
50 g powdered sugar

Instructions

Prepare everything necessary. Choose sweet and tasty carrots.
Pour sugar into a bowl, add vegetable oil.
200 g sugar, 100 ml vegetable oil
Mix with a mixer, break the eggs one at a time.
2 pcs egg
Whisk until a fluffy light mass is obtained.
Add flour and baking powder. Also add cinnamon and nutmeg,
170 g flour, 1 tsp baking powder
Mix at low speed. The dough will be quite thick.
Grate the carrots into fine shreds and squeeze out by hand. The weight is indicated after peeling and squeezing. Put the coarsely crumbled walnuts into a bowl.
170 g carrot, ½ tsp cinnamon, ½ cup walnut, ¼ tsp nutmeg
Mix, the dough will become more liquid. Spread evenly over a baking sheet lined with parchment or a non-stick mat, here the size is 30×40 cm.
Bake in the oven at 160℃ for 12-15 minutes. Check the readiness with a toothpick.
Trim the edges, and divide the sheet into 3 layers. After cooling, stack them on top of each other, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 10-12 hours, but you can start assembling right after baking.
For the cream, take ricotta, heavy cream, and sugar. For convenience, you can turn the sugar into powder.
250 g ricotta, 200 ml cream, 50 g powdered sugar
Whip the cream with powdered sugar to soft peaks, add ricotta, mix at low speed with a mixer. Dry the trimmings of the layers on a pan and crumble into crumbs.
Assemble the cake, spreading the layers with cottage cheese cream.
Sprinkle the sides with crumbs, decorate as desired. The carrot cake with cottage cheese glaze is ready. It almost doesn’t need to be soaked, so you can serve it right away.

Nutrition

Calories: 366kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 5gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 36mgSodium: 66mgPotassium: 119mgFiber: 1gSugar: 26gVitamin A: 3247IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 74mgIron: 1mg

Keyword fall, sweet