La tarta de zanahoria está de moda, por eso te vamos a dar la mejor receta en inglés, para que sorprendas a todos tus amigos.
Welcome back to The Baker’s Dozen and to a New Year. The start of a new year is always seen as the start of new beginnings when people start to think about what they can change over the coming year. It’s around this time people start to make New Year’s resolutions. I know that I have had the same one for a few years and you can see how successful I’ve been when you consider I am still making it. Yes, it’s the resolution we all make after the excesses of Christmas – it’s time to lose weight: Hola operación bikini!
Now as we all know cakes don’t really fit into a diet plan as they are most certainly not low in calories and for the most part are not seen as healthy…….or are they? One of my colleagues only recently tried today’s recipe as he had consistently refused in the past as he thought it sounded far too healthy to be tasty. And my husband was never keen to try it as, ‘it just didn’t sound right’. Both myself and my daughter love this cake and have enjoyed completing a survey on the best ones available in the cafés here in Barcelona. The only problem is that we can’t remember which is the best one, so what a shame that we have to start all over again. I like to think that this is a healthy cake, so it really can be part of a diet and for my youngest daughter who is not keen on vegetables, she thinks that a piece of this cake is the equivalent of a portion of vegetables – I like her thinking. So here we have a recipe for carrot cake.
I have to confess that I have never made this cake; every time I have mentioned it my eldest daughter has taken over from me in the kitchen as she loves to make it and I have become just the kitchen assistant. This recipe was given to me by one of our teachers; many thanks Perian, it’s a great recipe. The following measurements are American.
1½ cups sugar
1 cup vegetable or sunflower oil
3 large eggs
2 cups flour (if you use self raising flour then do not add baking soda)
1½ tsps ground cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp nutmeg
3 cups finely shredded/grated carrot
200g Philadelphia cream cheese
½ cup butter
2 tsps vanilla
250g powder sugar
Resolution: a promise that you make to yourself to do something; e.g. my New Year’s resolution is to do more exercise.
To take over: to replace someone or something or to take control (phrasal verb)
Self-raising flour: flour that already has the baking agent added to it (harina de bizcocho)
Tsp: teaspoon, it’s used to stir tea or coffee but as a measurement it is equivalent to 5ml or about 5g.
Cinnamon: a spice which is a brown powder made from the bark of a tropical tree (canela)
Bark: the hard outer covering of a tree
Baking soda: a white powder used to make foods rise when they are baked (levadura)
Nutmeg: a spice which is a brown powder made from the hard fruit of a tropical tree (nuez moscada)
Finely shredded (US) / Grated (UK): food that has been rubbed against a grater to cut it into small thin strips.
Cake tin: the mould that you use to cook your cake in.
Grater: a device having a surface covered with holes edged by slightly raised cutting edges (ralladora)
Powder sugar: azúcar glasé – icing sugar (UK)
Beat: the action to mix together ingredients vigorously
Plastic wrap: thin transparent material used for wrapping food to keep it fresh.
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