Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Carrot cake or Muffins

Ingredients:


Carrot (grated) - 2 cups

All purpose flour - 2 cups

Sugar - 1 1/4 cup

Baking soda - 1 tsp

Ripe Banana ( Medium ) - 2

Strawberry ( Wash and chop in to pieces ) - 8

Cooking Oil - 2/3 rd cup

Raisins - 1/2 cup

Nuts ( finely chopped ) - 1 cup

Coconut flakes - 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Seedless Dates ( chopped in to small pieces ) - 1/2 cup

Milk - 1/4 cup



Method:

  • Preheat the oven to 180 deg C. Grease the Muffin tray.

  • Sieve All purpose flour with baking soda twice or thrice.

  • Peel, mash and beat Bananas until fluffy. Add oil, cardamom and sugar and mix well.

  • In a large bowl mix together dates, coconut flakes, nuts, raisins, strawberry and carrot with All purpose flour and baking soda mixture.

  • Fold wet ingredients to dry ingredients mixing thoroughly but not hard.

  • Add some milk in-order to combine the flour if it is tight. The batter should be in thick pouring consistency.

  • Pour this batter to the greased Muffin tray or cake pan. Bake till toothpick inserted on the center comes out clean. 

  • Cool the tray completely before turning upside down.